Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The COPEI and the MAS on Feb. 24 declined Pérez 's request to the secretaries-general of all main opposition parties to join a " political cabinet " of ministers without portfolio to draft policies for the next two years of government . |
| 2 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 3 | Since then individual departments have each published their own spending plans for the next three years , approved by the Treasury . |
| 4 | This statement together with a series of strategic aims ( set out on page 2 ) and more specific objectives will guide the Councils in establishing specific action plans for the next three years . |
| 5 | We have set out our tax and spending plans for the next three years . |
| 6 | New programmes for the next three years include a research study on women in the media in some Asian countries , workshops in South Asia for women 's alternative media , and a wider concern for advocacy in women 's media issues . |
| 7 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 8 | In return , the Edinburgh branch of the STA was to maintain peace on all questions of wages and hours for the next three years . |
| 9 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 10 | Less than 25 have been completed and the latest plan aims to finish only 26 projects during the next two years . |
| 11 | Now these , this next band , the annual mileage ones , the sickness , and the form seven projections for the next three years , that data will come from Alan . |
| 12 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 13 | Shire Counties fared just as strangely , with both Cumbria and Northumberland being at the extreme low end of the ranking in change among these authorities for the first two years and yet requiring one of the largest increases in the third . |
| 14 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 15 | Another significant factor has been the instrumental ‘ explosion ’ which has affected all schools during the last forty years . |
| 16 | The voluntary scheme has the backing of the government , which is providing £13 million of funds for the first three years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 19 | In his annual report to the nation on Nov. 1 setting out goals for the second three years of his six-year presidential term , President Carlos Salinas de Gortari proposed radical reforms of agriculture , the education system and the status of the church based on changes to the 1917 Constitution . |
| 20 | ‘ Thought about nothing but cars for the first twenty-five years of his life , now he thinks about nothing but polo . |
| 21 | So when you get to the planning calendars , put everything before the planning calendars in the storage binder please , and then you should find some planning calendars for the next five years . |
| 22 | Liam Carson , general manager / director of the Groucho Club , has worked in London restaurants for the last 15 years . |
| 23 | On jobs , its almost certain there will be further losses during the next two years , but bear in mind that when I asked for SVS volunteers last September more than 230 people applied . |
| 24 | We will have a brand new product launch every six months for the next three years . |
| 25 | She had regular treatment sessions for the next two years , and was still making progress . |
| 26 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 27 | There is more pop surrealism by Anne Schwegmann-Fielding and clocks and candlesticks by Adrian Taylor are based on styles of the last 150 years . |
| 28 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |
| 29 | Which is the antithesis of Jeremy [ Isaacs ] , who is a programme-maker at heart , one of the great programme-makers of the last 20 years . |
| 30 | Stepping back from the hurly-burly of political combat , I suppose all the tussles of the last 15 years have been about weaning our politicians off the romance of a benevolent , let alone competent , state . |