Example sentences of "years from [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breeze of competitive change dictates that the professional who wishes to survive must be a very different animal in the next fifty years from previously , and that no surveyor can approach the problems of the future with attitudes and practices which are rooted in the past . |
| 2 | Like Ringmer , the population of the village has rapidly expanded in recent years from just under 2,000 in 1971 to over 3,000 in 1981 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're talking about a world that seems light years from here . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a research station , not light years from here , James , where the professors and gifted students of the department of behavioural sciences torture apes and other animals for the benefit , they tell us , of all mankind . |
| 5 | The second theme would be the story of these new nations , the Germanic kingdoms whose foundations were laid during the years from about 400 to 600 ad . |
| 6 | But to return to our historical account , as if the picture was not already complicated enough , the Ministry of Education found its own way of promoting drama — to align it with Physical Education , a policy which was gradually put forward by certain Inspectors for Physical Education over a period of 20 years from about 1945 . |
| 7 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 8 | As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature . |
| 9 | Like the best wines , distinguished architecture matures over time : 50 years from now , Lloyds will be championed by as yet unborn conservationists , fought over in the media and ultimately listed Grade One . |
| 10 | And in just some two years from now , perhaps three at the most , that same cleared forest ground will be abandoned . |
| 11 | Even were a suitable one found , this would not obviously better the party 's chances in the general election due two years from now . |
| 12 | To take comfort in the simple truth about Hard Times : that however rotten things might seem at the moment , they will most assuredly seem altogether quaint fifty years from now . |
| 13 | Seven years from now they will be Britain 's top importers . |
| 14 | She is opinionated , and can confidently predict that William Burroughs , whose books have me aching with boredom , will be read a hundred years from now . |
| 15 | Mrs Anne Lennox , whose husband , Sqn Ldr Garry Lennox , was shot down and killed over Iraq , said that the three RAF widows would have to undergo ‘ demeaning means tests ’ years from now if they wanted something from the fund . |
| 16 | This , one felt , was what elections would be like 100 years from now . |
| 17 | Ten years from now ? |
| 18 | Some day , perhaps ten years from now , Toyota will have great airplane sales . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Four years from now , yes , by then … ’ the old man 's face broke into a grin . |
| 20 | Two years from now — maybe more , maybe as much as five , though I doubt it — the French will pull out . |
| 21 | Although you will never know it , it could be that the slimming diet you are about to embark on will prevent your own children from suffering from cancer of the colon , forty years from now . |
| 22 | ‘ Nick , ’ he continued with a tone of wry honesty in his voice , ‘ there are some mighty clever people who say I could be President of the United States three years from now , but what no one seems to realise is that I do n't care about that . |
| 23 | Just think , in a few years from now baffled Frenchmen could be facing a generation of British tourists demanding : ‘ Ee chuck ! |
| 24 | But one year , two years and three years from now , ‘ not bad ’ wo n't be good enough . |
| 25 | Couple of years from now he 'll be a pundit surgeon . |
| 26 | In case anyone should think that some of our commentary on IBM Corp and its problems is a little apocalyptic , hear what they are saying on the other side of the Atlantic : ‘ With IBM , there 's a question in my mind whether the company is going to exist five years from now , ’ Kenneth Heebner of Boston fund manager Capital Growth Management commented to the Wall Street Journal . |
| 27 | My priorities in life is smaller , more compact , but their priorities is for about ten , fifteen years from now . |
| 28 | Maybe fifty years from now , everybody 'll be laughing at the Impressionists ! |
| 29 | If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it . |
| 30 | Thirty years from now the words will have been wiped clean by the sun and sea that inspired them . |