Example sentences of "[prep] the next thirty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 2 | It was renamed to the more familiar hydrogen in 1790 and ousted hot air as the preferred lifting agent for the next thirty years . |
| 3 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 4 | He now immersed himself in university life and history , and remained at St Edmund Hall for the next thirty years . |
| 5 | This type of locomotive was repeated by him after he transferred to the Caledonian Railway in 1882 and was further developed by his successors on that railway for the next thirty years . |
| 6 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 7 | For the next thirty years the Duke and Duchess lived in Paris . |
| 8 | For the next thirty years the Duke and Duchess lived in Paris . |
| 9 | Although the majority of these barbarians moved on to Spain in 409 , some stayed behind : there were Alans active in Gaul under their leader Goar for the next thirty years ; they were to be settled in Gallia Ulterior , that is on land to the north of the Loire , in the 440s . |
| 10 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 11 | Probably disillusioned with the Arts and Crafts Movement , he turned to archaeology and during the next thirty years worked on sites in the area . |
| 12 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 13 | Between 1541 and 1570 the labourers recorded in the Myddle parish register formed only 7·1 per cent of adult males , but during the next thirty years the proportion rose to 23·4 per cent . |
| 14 | Although first reactions to Linnaeus were usually unfavourable , on account of his egoistic nature , his visit helped to create an understanding on which goodwill and confidence were built , and his system of classification , based on the number of sexual parts in the flowers , became generally accepted within the next thirty years . |
| 15 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
| 16 | But it also noted that population would continue to rise over the next thirty years and presented the view that the state should plan future population growth by offering family allowances and income tax relief to those contemplating families along with the development of special services for the benefit of children and mothers . |
| 17 | Those forty-eight hours were a small opening shot in the game of chance and challenge he played with his stamina over the next thirty years . |
| 18 | Over the next thirty years he was to write or illustrate over seventy books . |
| 19 | Over the next thirty years the shipyard prospered . |
| 20 | Figures published by the Department of Industry ( DTI ) show that on current trends emissions of carbon dioxide in Britain will probably continue to rise over the next thirty years . |
| 21 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |