Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the next [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 2 | Across the Atlantic , the Indian hockey team was in its pomp , winning the hockey tournament at the Los Angeles Olympics , and dominated hockey for the best part of the next 40 years . |
| 3 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 4 | During the course of the next two years , Somerset 's government brought about a number of Protestant reforms , including the dissolution of the chantries and the introduction of an English Prayer Book and a new liturgy for the mass . |
| 5 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 6 | Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class . |
| 7 | As a result , in the course of the next six years all 30 polytechnics were officially designated and the binary system of education was consolidated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 10 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 11 | In the course of the next three years over 5 million small farmers moved from individual farms to larger settlements , often including several hundred families . |
| 12 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 13 | Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years . |
| 14 | Little of his work of the next three years is known , but from that time until 1814 he produced much of his best drawing in pencil and watercolours . |
| 15 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 16 | Trumpeted as a ‘ British Big Chill ’ , Peter 's Friends follows an opening of a Footlights-style theatrical revue on New Year 's Eve 1982 with a roll call of the next ten years of celebrity news figures . |
| 17 | This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years . |