Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the next four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 2 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | Coun Tomlinson , chairman of the social services committee , said : ‘ The Government has now announced how it intends to allocate funds for the next four years . |
| 5 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 6 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 7 | This can and must be done through the imposition , by the Secretary of State , of a statutory duty on MPAs to review such permissions over the next four years . |
| 8 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 9 | As the Venice Biennale approaches its centenary year , political machinations , seemingly so dear to the heart of Italian and particularly Venetian cultural activities , are holding up the appointment of new members of the Management Committee which is responsible for the programme of the Biennale over the next four years . |
| 10 | This in its turn was so successful that , within four months of its introduction in 1949 , the available places for the next four years had been booked , so that no new applications could be considered for admissions before 1953 ! 1949 also saw the introduction of Rugby football in place of Association , " to make better use of the space " , a decision then and since deplored and regretted by the Old Stopfordians ' Football Club . |
| 11 | In 1891 , when shipbuilding was distressed , Harland was persuaded to introduce a system of cost plus contracts for favoured customers which secured a large volume of business over the next four years . |
| 12 | The review will take place over the next four years with all the changes in place by 1998 . |
| 13 | He was given drugs which controlled this well and had no more health problems for the next four years . |
| 14 | The ACCA refuses to sanction the event at any other location , and Sydney , despite claiming rights to stage the race for the next four years , has yet to build a Grand Prix circuit . |
| 15 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending congratulations to a Yorkshire manufacturing company , Spring Ram plc , which at the end of the month will open two new factories in my constituency , creating 400 new jobs , which is at present building two new factories in Barnsley which will create 400 new jobs , and which has a plan to create 1,100 new jobs in Bradford over the next four years ? |
| 17 | The US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has appealed to industry to halve emissions of 17 toxic substances over the next four years — or face potentially costly controls imposed by government . |
| 18 | Claiming that a coup was being planned even before he introduced economic austerity policies on taking office three years previously , Pérez told foreign correspondents on Feb. 9 that he intended to continue with his economic policies but would bring forward a $4,000 million social project to improve health care , education and social welfare over the next four years . |
| 19 | HUTCHISON Telecommunications has promised to invest £500m in the UK over the next four years , part of which will be used to increase the customer service department in Darlington . |
| 20 | At any rate , they are the best marks that were to appear on his performance schedule over the next four years , when his average ran at 56.4 per cent . |
| 21 | Romania 's first cellular phone network will be launched this week under a deal with Spain 's Telefonica de Espana SA , Reuter reports from Bucharest : ‘ Starting April 5 , our cellular phones will become operational in the Romanian capital Bucharest , ’ Florin Rusu , executive manager of Telefonica Romania SA said ; the cellular network will initially operate in a range of 20 miles in and around Bucharest , and would spread to all Romania 's main cities within the next four years ; Telefonica holds a 60% stake in the company , local partners the rest . |
| 22 | and the party as a whole played only a junior role for the next four years . |
| 23 | So I left again and lived with this other woman for the next four years , but the relationship was ruined because Marie would n't leave us alone . |
| 24 | A suggested admissions policy for the next four years is that new first year students should be admitted each October to bring the total student numbers to 10% more than the previous October . |
| 25 | Spending departments would be told how much they could spend in real terms in the next four years . |
| 26 | The £3.2m investment in the pottery includes the provision of new kilns and is expected to result in a trebling of the workforce over the next four years . |
| 27 | Future payments totalling $18.5m will depend on average post-tax profits over the next four years . |
| 28 | However the Lyceum , unlike the King 's , depends on subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council which is planning to cut its funding in real terms over the next four years . |
| 29 | Intelsat plans to take the capacity as a stop-gap while it awaits delivery of 10 new birds over the next four years . |
| 30 | There were hard fights over the next four years which I do not resent . |