Example sentences of "[noun] over the next 20 years " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday .
3 Discuss the disadvantages of using these figures to help determine the provision of old people 's facilities in your local community over the next 20 years .
4 A Labour Government will seek to double the numbers of those benefiting from higher education over the next 20 years .
5 The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production .
6 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 .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 The shipments , which are expected to transport up to 30 tonnes of plutonium from Cap La Hague and Sellafield ( UK ) to Japan over the next 20 years , have aroused international protest .
11 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 ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The director of the project , which employed 60 people near the Cornish town of Penryn , had claimed that " hot rock " energy could provide power to meet all the south-west 's requirements over the next 20 years .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years .
18 A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) warns that 245 million acres — 10 per cent of the earth 's farmland — will lose much of its agricultural value over the next 20 years as a result of over-grazing , deforestation and poor land management .
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