Example sentences of "[prep] the next six years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs . |
| 2 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 3 | For the next six years , our marriage was constantly threatened by his other women . |
| 4 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 5 | 1991 saw total Unix systems revenue in Europe climb to $6.9bn from $6bn in 1990. 1991 's growth of 15% is two points up on 1990 's 13% — IDC predicts a mean compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 14% for the next six years , by which time it believes the European market will be worth some $16.3bn . |
| 6 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 7 | He appointed a German-born Harvard professor of international relations , Henry Kissinger , as special adviser on National Security Affairs , and these two men dominated American international relations for the next six years . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in 1274 at the Council of Lyons , Gregory X imposed on the English clergy , for the next six years , a tenth based on a new assessment . |
| 9 | In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers . |
| 10 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 11 | For the next six years Picasso , like Braque , was to fix his attention on single figure compositions , still lifes , and , to a lesser extent , landscapes . |
| 12 | His position as gérant commandité in a mixed liability company arrangement means that he will be unbudgeable from the head of Matra-Hachette 's management for the next six years , though his personal assets will be exposed if the group suffers any setbacks . |
| 13 | For the next six years doors opened and slammed . |
| 14 | On Aug. 13 the government published a list of television companies which had been awarded official concessions and were thus entitled to continue broadcasting for the next six years beyond an Aug. 23 deadline . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 17 | The immediate crisis passed , but during the next six years the monarchy 's problems if anything intensified , with military humiliation in Morocco and social unrest raging in the emerging anarchist strongholds of urban Catalonia and rural Andalusia : all this against a background of chronic governmental instability . |
| 18 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 19 | In 1356 , after a succession of fruitless campaigns ( though just before some spectacular successes ) , the king sought in vain from the clergy a grant of a tenth for each of the next six years ; the clergy refused to offer more than a solitary tenth because not only had some of their conditions attached to earlier grants been ignored but also they themselves were too impoverished by war levies of all kinds to afford greater liberality . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It quotes Gartner Group estimates that investment in Asynchronous Transfer Mode technology will top $50,000m within the next six years . |
| 22 | It quotes Gartner Group estimates that reckons investment in ATM technology will top $50bn within the next six years . |
| 23 | In the next six years , he emerged as an ardent champion of the nonconformist causes of Welsh Church disestablishment and tithe reform , the Welsh tenant farmers ' campaign for land reform , and Irish home rule . |
| 24 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 25 | In the next six years the workforce is due to rise only slowly , by 600,000 overall . |
| 26 | The project went into cold storage , periodically resurfacing over the next six years only to sink once more . |
| 27 | The results , he said , do not reflect any benefit from the £250m Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System UK Ministry of Defence contract , nor from the £200m British Gas Plc coup , both of which will be delivered over the next six years . |
| 28 | The British Broadcasting Corporation has extended its 30-year relationship with ICL Plc with two new contracts for the provision of services over the next six years : first , ICL 's CFM facilities management subsidiary will run the Beeb 's mainframe bureau operation in Feltham , West London on ICL Series 39 SX mainframes ; second , the BBC is taking advantage of ICL 's Open Hire agreement in its move to a distributed Unix computing environment . |
| 29 | Over the next six years green belts fell out of ministerial favour , but rehabilitation followed in 1970 . |
| 30 | The Council of Ministers on Jan. 24 also approved a 300,000 million ptas investment plan for Asturias providing for the creation of 1,800 new jobs over the next six years with special regard to the mining sector . |