Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the next 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | NUREG has subsequently calculated that there is a 45 per cent chance of an accident similar to Three Mile Island happening in 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 | Friends of the Earth urged the government to delay any decision on Thorp until after the advisory committee completes its review of radioactive waste disposal for the next 20 years , which is expected next year . |
| 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 | ‘ A minerals and waste local plan is about to be prepared and it will form the basis for the control and location of quarries and landfill sites in the county for the next 20 years , ’ said CLA regional secretary Jolyon Dodgson . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So on current plans the reprocessing plants will separate an average of 21 tonnes of plutonium a year over the next 20 years . |
| 13 | 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 . |