Example sentences of "year [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see on the Covermaster , on an escalating plan , it 's twenty percent each year for the first four years . |
| 2 | Also at the LSE , Hella was guaranteed £60 a year for the first two years of her course by Professor Harold Laski , the brother of Elaine Blond 's first husband . |
| 3 | His decision was based on a prediction that South-East Asia 's economies will grow at 6.9% a year for the next four years . |
| 4 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 5 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | On Sept. 6 France had blocked proposals to allow increased access for beef and other meat , but on Sept. 30 it was agreed that the three countries could increase meat sales by 10 per cent per year for the next five years , with the EC preventing any adverse impact on the internal market for its own produce by financing the sale of all this additional meat to the Soviet Union , Romania and Albania . |
| 7 | For example , consider an alternative transit system ( project B ) which costs £1000000 and has cash inflows of £300000 per year for four years and £500000 per year for the next six years . |
| 8 | Lloyd 's long term aim is to open two clubs a year for the next ten years , a target that , if achieved , would give him 23 by the end of the century . |
| 9 | On January 29th Tesco launched a rights issue to help finance an investment programme averaging £900m a year for the next three years . |
| 10 | Now suppose that the actual rate increases by 8 percentage points every year for the next three years as a result of annual increases in the nominal stock of money . |
| 11 | Tandy Corp 's Computer City subsidiary plans to expand in Europe this year : it already has superstores in Stockholm and Copenhagen and plans at least one more in Europe this year , although it 's not sure where ; Computer City — one step down from Tandy 's Incredible Universe fun palace stores — will open its 19th US superstore on April 1 in the Boston area and plans to open 16 new US superstores a year for the next three years for a total of 66 . |
| 12 | In the next parliament , which assembled in September 1337 , the commons granted a tenth and a fifteenth to be levied each year for the next three years . |
| 13 | In four years , he has grown from 16 staff to 40 , and plans to add at least 10 a year for the next three years . |
| 14 | The move is forced by Church of England Commissioners who are to cut cash for Durham by £120,000 each year for the next three years . |
| 15 | ‘ Sugar is still a growth market and we expect it to grow by roughly 2 per cent a year for the next 25 years , ’ he says . |
| 16 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 17 | Claim twelve times a year for the next forty years , right up until retirement age , if they wish . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | Doctors ordered the star , who had been playing up to 150 gigs every year for the last 10 years , to rest or maybe wreck his voice for good . |
| 20 | This woman 's been coming from Holland every year for the last fourteen years |
| 21 | The number of abortions performed on married women has remained at about 40,000 per year for the last fifteen years , while the number performed on single women , and divorced , separated , and widowed women has approximately doubled . |
| 22 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |
| 23 | Mr McNeill 's lump sum payment and pension will be based on the best pay of any year of the last three years of his career . |
| 24 | It is hoped the Forum will broker an average of £1m new projects a year in the first three years and will seek to raise the profile of the industry through international events and through press coverage . |
| 25 | The aim should be to re-cycle half of the 18 million tonnes of domestic rubbish produced in Britain each year within the next 10 years . |
| 26 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 27 | According to estimates prepared in advance of the Assembly [ see also p. 38891 ] , the global average for life expectancy was expected to rise by four months a year over the next five years . |
| 28 | Five B status is going to bring in two to three million a year over the next five years , the total cost of running the scheme is one point three million pounds , in effect we 're a net contributor |
| 29 | An Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) report has predicted that organic farming will expand by 25 per cent a year over the next five years . |
| 30 | While it intends to press ahead with its policy of getting rid of 15,000 staff a year over the next two years , finance director Barry Romeril said redundancy costs would be cut by half . |