Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 32 | In return , the Edinburgh branch of the STA was to maintain peace on all questions of wages and hours for the next three years . |
| 33 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 34 | Now owned by Varity Corporation , Perkins has celebrated its diamond jubilee by signing a multi-million pound contract to supply Caterpillar for the next 10 years . |
| 35 | It was a thank you to the 70 maintenance crew who have serviced the planes at the base for the last 22 years . |
| 36 | It was maintained with local support for the next three years , then in 1975 it acquired a three-year grant from the Council on Learning Resources ( CLR ) . |
| 37 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 38 | Less than 25 have been completed and the latest plan aims to finish only 26 projects during the next two years . |
| 39 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 40 | His new-round reputation was also reflected in smart London society flocking to see the latest novelties from Australia — dead and alive — in the ornithologist 's house in Broad Street , as well as the number of subscribers willing to pay for his extravagant Australian publications , which would provide him with an income for the next 30 years . |
| 41 | Now these , this next band , the annual mileage ones , the sickness , and the form seven projections for the next three years , that data will come from Alan . |
| 42 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 43 | The acknowledged leader in modern first editions , which have been greatly in vogue for the last two years . |
| 44 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 45 | ‘ And of course Julius has lived like an absolute monk for the last four years , ’ Jessamy threw back at her angrily . |
| 46 | Well , Tony McCaffery , good luck for the next twenty years . |
| 47 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 48 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 49 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 50 | Horst Klosterkemper , chairman of the relevant committee but probably better known as the man who made the European Team Championships in Dusseldorf such a success , acknowledges that the event — without sponsor prize money for the last two years — has lost some of its gloss . |
| 51 | We regretted the decision for the next ten years . |
| 52 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 53 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 54 | Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years . |
| 55 | Radio-carbon or C14 dating was first applied in 1949 and together with other evidence now provides the chronology for the last 50,000 years and may be extended to 75,000 years . |
| 56 | A NEW seam of Welsh gold — used for every Royal wedding ring for the last 70 years — has been found at a mine near Dolgellau . |
| 57 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 58 | 1991 saw total Unix systems revenue in Europe climb to $6.9bn from $6bn in 1990. 1991 's growth of 15% is two points up on 1990 's 13% — IDC predicts a mean compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 14% for the next six years , by which time it believes the European market will be worth some $16.3bn . |
| 59 | That 's what has happened in world football for the last 10 years and we 've just started doing it . |
| 60 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |