Example sentences of "of the next [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the proposals of the Next Five Years Group anticipated many of the developments of the 1940s , such as a National Development Board , greater public investment in housing , the co-ordination of social services to achieve a ‘ National Minimum ’ , the expansion of secondary education , and town and country planning . |
| 2 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 3 | Already a giant American sports management group reckon that Christie could earn up to £1million for each of the next four years . |
| 4 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 5 | He was to spend most of the next fourteen years in official residences . |
| 6 | This hope turned out to be mistaken , but this was because of a new feature of the situation which was barely visible in 1072 : the Hildebrandine vision of a unified administrative system of government under papal direction was the real enemy of the primacy , as we can see from the history of the next fifty years . |
| 7 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 8 | Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class . |
| 9 | The political developments of the next eighteen years ensured that this was not so . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years . |
| 13 | Mr and Mrs Lugt were to put together one of the most fascinating collections of the next sixty years . |
| 14 | But they are also nervous that the calculations they make in the next two weeks may determine who will win and lose the political battles of the next two years . |
| 15 | If this happens , then for each of the next two years the charity 's accounts will have to be audited . |
| 16 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 17 | During the course of the next two years , Somerset 's government brought about a number of Protestant reforms , including the dissolution of the chantries and the introduction of an English Prayer Book and a new liturgy for the mass . |
| 18 | Software Etc Stores Inc , Edina , Minnesota software retailer , got its offering of 800,000 shares , all new , away at $15.50 per share and intends to use the $12m or so net proceeds to accelerate its store expansion programme — opening 60 to 70 new stores in each of the next two years to add to the 42 currently open . |
| 19 | Much of the next two years was passed in efforts to avert just such a development , and in these efforts the clergy played a positive role . |
| 20 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |
| 21 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 22 | LAURA JOINED THE WRNS IN 1944 FROM MERTHYR TYDFIL AND SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARIS AND BRUSSELS . |
| 23 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 24 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 25 | As a result the cost of living will rise , inflation will hover around the 4 per cent mark for much of the next two years , but it will not measure the much larger deflationary effects of the Budget as a whole on incomes and spending power . |
| 26 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 27 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 28 | In the course of the next three years over 5 million small farmers moved from individual farms to larger settlements , often including several hundred families . |
| 29 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 30 | It was a tribute for which the events of the next three years provided ample justification . |