Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the next few years " in BNC.

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1 We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 .
2 State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years .
3 Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years .
4 DEC claims its UK workstation business will grow at a compound annual rate of 2% or 3% for the next few years , and ambitiously predicts its will overhaul Sun to become market leader by 1995/96 .
5 Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates .
6 The transitions mentioned above are envisaged to become ‘ standard development ’ for expert systems in aircraft maintenance in the next few years .
7 We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place .
8 He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him !
9 ‘ If you are in quality stocks with strong balance sheets in less cyclical areas of the market you will do well in equities over the next few years . ’
10 Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years .
11 When Nizan returned to France in January 1935 , he returned not disillusioned , chastened perhaps , but above all convinced of the necessity to become involved in the great moral crusade of the next few years , the struggle against fascism .
12 No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector .
13 It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested .
14 A HAVEN Mr Alan Milburn , Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for the town , said the charter was ‘ a declaration of intent that will be fulfilled during the course of the next few years . ’
15 A recent survey found that one third of women employees planned to have a child during the next few years .
16 The restructuring and the exit from the Sparcsystems business have left Opus with a creditor repayment plan for the next few years .
17 The plan for the next few years is to implement the strategy by significant additional investment in staff and equipment and the internal networking of buildings .
18 With plans to expand our cutter fleet in the offing Venturous took on a new role as training ship during the winter periods for the next few years .
19 I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it .
20 Other sections on which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years included :
21 Other sections which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years include :
22 ‘ It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push .
23 His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years .
24 Moody 's expects that the telephone companies will be able to improve their financial flexibility over the next few years , largely offsetting increasing competitive risks .
25 The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future .
26 Now it seems to me , that er , the watch-word for our policy development work over the next few years , must be effective co-ordination with our members and the wider voluntary sector .
27 An important strategic requirement over the next few years will be to make progress with the resolution of these questions which bear crucially on the structure of a collegiate university and raise fundamental questions about the nature of undergraduate teaching at Oxford and its relationship with graduate teaching and supervision .
28 In the Far East it already has two partners in the shape of Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd and presently state-owned Singapore Telecom , and the trio say they will spend over $100m over the next few years on WorldPartners .
29 Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years .
30 The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years .
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