Example sentences of "over the next 20 " in BNC.

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1 The US will probably benefit from a doubling of middle-aged people aged 45 to 54 over the next 20 years because of the baby boom of the late 1950s .
2 UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost .
3 According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years .
4 Almost alone among its peers , Britain will see over the next 20 years a small decline in its old-age dependency ratio ( the number of people aged over 65 as a proportion of the working population ) .
5 Last summer Atlanta proposed taking twice as much — up to 529m gallons a day — from the Chattahoochee and Lake Sidney Lanier to quench suburban growth over the next 20 years .
6 Mr Plowden added : ‘ Last year 's forecasts of a 66 per cent rise in demand over the next 20 years brought home the enormity of the environmental threat posed by current minerals policy . ’
7 Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic .
8 The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production .
9 This marked the completion of the country 's largest industrial project , costing some $2 billion , the Bintulu LNG project and over the next 20 years five Malaysian LNG tankers will be built .
10 We 'll be financing your purchase ( not just arranging it ) over the next 20 to 25 years or more — so your well being is vitally important to us .
11 Over the next 20 years scientists tried , mostly by trial and error , to find ways of ordering the possibilities so that the benefits of ‘ refutation screening ’ could be achieved .
12 THE UNITED STATES ' navy is under heavy fire for its plan to dispose of 100 or more of its old nuclear submarines off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts over the next 20 or so years .
13 The hole would appear over the next 20 years at Hemerdon , just outside Plymouth — the scene of western Europe 's biggest deposit of tungsten .
14 And they will achieve nothing over the next 20 years . ’
15 The Irish Times reported : ‘ He regards the Ovens factory as an ideal guinea-pig situation in which the workers , protected by the best current standards , would be medically tested going into the plant and continuously tested over the next 20 years in order to measure the exposure risk and the effectiveness of the standards ’ .
16 WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday .
17 The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline .
18 I wonder how much I could ‘ do ’ over the next 20 years ?
19 A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years .
20 So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years .
21 Despite gloomy predictions over the next 20 years , including forecasts that only one ‘ quality ’ daily would survive , with one middle-range paper ( the Express , for example ) and one tabloid , only two other established papers died .
22 The Medical Manpower Standing Advisory Committee needs to think much more widely and commission more extensive analyses before committing the nation to the huge costs of paying for extra doctors over the next 20 years .
23 For example the Review of Railway Finances chaired by Sir David Serpell was given the following terms of reference ‘ to examine the finances of the railway and associated operations , in the light of all relevant considerations , and to report on options for alternative policies , and their related objectives , designed to secure improved financial results in an efficiently run railway in Great Britain over the next 20 years ’ .
24 The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) .
25 We are on the brink of a new revolution in the countryside , for already the process has begun whereby over the next 20 years millions of acres of farmland will be taken out of production .
26 I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined .
27 Over the next 20 years or more western Europe will forge ahead as a prosperous single market .
28 Jacques Attali , the ( French ) president of the EBRD , estimated that eastern Europe would need ECU2,000,000 million over the next 20 years , although " the most important point " was that " the money will come from the reorganization of their own economies and their own savings " .
29 The Financial Times of Feb. 6 , 1991 , reported that the government was to increase exports of natural gas by a further 200,000 million cubic metres over the next 20 years .
30 The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes .
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