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

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1 We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place .
2 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 !
3 ‘ 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 . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years .
11 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 .
12 Howard Davies , the commission 's controller , says that , as schools are given more financial and managerial independence over the next few years , authorities should monitor quality on behalf of ratepayers and parents , rather than pretending that all their schools are equally good .
13 ‘ In addition , we have a number of significant discoveries awaiting development , which will contribute substantially to a rising production and cash flow profile over the next few years , ’ he added .
14 An issue for research libraries over the next few years is to seize the opportunity offered by technology for enrichment of OPACs as electronic access tools .
15 According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years .
16 Mr Cohen said there was ‘ great scope for building up a British-based group hand tools business over the next few years . ’
17 The response of airports and airlines to the Channel Tunnel has been coloured by the impending deregulation of air transport in Europe which is expected to lead to a substantial fall in fares and a rise in business over the next few years .
18 In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK .
19 The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years .
20 The manufacturer reckons that the deal will be worth in the region of £100m over the next few years as Cambridge-based Ionica rolls out its UK network .
21 To have a paper laying out clearly what our priorities over the next few years are to be would help to provide the firm direction that an organisation like ours needs to have .
22 British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ?
23 In the spring of nineteen eighty-nine , a number of voluntary organisations involved in running telephone help-lines , came to us about B T's plans to introduce compulsory itemised billing , for all customers over the next few years .
24 erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another .
25 The German railway system is facing major structural changes over the next few years as it struggles to rebuild its share of the transport market .
26 The Government is promoting Compacts because it recognises that there will be a shortfall in supply of responsible and qualified young people over the next few years .
27 The industry did not shriek too loudly : the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy .
28 ‘ Near-term competitive challenges will be greater for some local telephone companies than for others , and some credit ratings may fall , ’ the New York ratings says , ‘ but balanced regulation , strong demand for telephone services and continuing progress in cost reduction should enable most companies to maintain strong financial performance and stable credit quality over the next few years . ’
29 On balance , I believe we will see somewhat reduced North Sea activity levels over the next few years .
30 Market analysis suggests that inkjet sales , which were virtually zilch three or four years ago , will massively exceed both laser and dot matrix printer sales over the next few years , accounting for about half of the total printer market by 1997 .
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