Example sentences of "[prep] the next twenty-five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And chaps like me can then go down to the villa , for those two weeks , every year for the next twenty-five years , without paying a penny ! |
| 2 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 3 | In Belgium the clerical party won the 1880 elections and held power for the next twenty-five years , repealing an earlier secularization of education and making instruction in the Roman Catholic faith obligatory in all publicly maintained schools in 1895 . |
| 4 | For the next twenty-five years Baxter dominated colour printing , branching out into a variety of publishing areas , including decorated music sheets , note paper , pocket-books , and his famous needle cases . |
| 5 | For the next twenty-five years he held a series of appointments as minister : St Thomas 's Square , Hackney ( 1880–5 ) ; Cheetham Hill Congregational church , Manchester ( 1885–8 ) ; Clarendon Park , Leicester ( 1888–94 ) ; and Emmanuel church , Cambridge ( 1894–1901 ) . |
| 6 | In January 1989 the Secretary of State for Education and Science said that he was expecting a doubling of student numbers during the next twenty-five years . |
| 7 | While civil conflicts of this kind should diminish in the next twenty-five years as African states mature , they will not disappear . |
| 8 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 9 | Government ministers now boasted of having increased spending on higher education and struck an expansionist note in calling for doubling student numbers over the next twenty-five years . |
| 10 | If this pace kept up , 10,000 buildings classed as ‘ historic ’ would disappear over the next twenty-five years . |
| 11 | Gradually , over the next twenty-five years the terms of the Treaty were eroded as the Free State became a Republic in all but name . |