Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] 15 years " in BNC.
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1 | It reckons more than 8,400 new jet airliners will be sold by western manufacturers over the next 15 years , worth more than $500 billion ( see chart overleaf ) . |
2 | FoE calculated that replacing old , worn-out fridges and freezers with energy efficient models over the next 15 years would wipe out the need for 1.8GW of electricity . |
3 | The work is continuing with the development of a new framework for tax incidence , examining the concept of progressivity and investigating the factors which have changed the income distribution over the last 15 years . |
4 | THE export business at has seen dramatic development over the last 15 years . |
5 | The Gloucestershire firm will supply the Lockheed Company of America with £200 million worth of propellers over the next 15 years . |
6 | The government plans to build a further 56 large pulping mills over the next 15 years . |
7 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |
8 | He told a London conference on acid rain that nearly half of southern Sweden 's forest soils are seriously damaged now , or at risk of serious damage over the next 15 years . |
9 | * Meanwhile , a report for the European Commission has shown how EC countries could implement a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions over the next 15 years ( by 2005 ) at a cost that is almost negligible . |
10 | Design difficulties , problems , chloride contamination , and inadequate waterproofing of materials have caused major problems for bridges — leaving the ministry with an £800 million repair bill over the next 15 years . |
11 | One of the main aims of the programme will be to collect information over the next 15 years to measure the impact of global warming . |
12 | These are theoretical and practical questions of considerable importance as discussion over the last 15 years has shown . |
13 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
14 | The most dramatic effect of the squeeze , says Sir Eric , is seen in academic salaries , He produces figures which show that while dons ' salaries have retained their real value over the last 15 years or so — that is to say , they have kept pace with the Retail Price index — almost every other non-manual worker in the UK has done significantly better . |
15 | A report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae , published during the year , completes a programme of six such surveys of sand and gravel resources undertaken in Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
16 | The publication in 1990 of a report on the sand and gravel resources of the country around Strachan and Auchenblae completes a programme of six such surveys undertaken in the Grampian Region over the last 15 years . |
17 | It will argue to delegates in Kyoto that , while a Bryde 's whale is worth about ¥33.4m ( $100,000 ) in a fish market , the 16 resident Bryde 's whales at Ogata are expected to bring in ¥675m to the boatmen over the next 15 years and nearly eight times as much in hotel accommodation and assorted knick-knacks . |
18 | ‘ I 'm choosing to assume completely my responsibility , ’ declared Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti , after delivering a 20-page document , detailing bribes paid by Olivetti over the last 15 years as political favours to the Mani Pulite — Clean Hands — investigating judges in Milan on Sunday . |