Example sentences of "[prep] the next twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next twenty years , Rothko 's work consisted of reanimating this pattern with the substance of his emotional life . |
| 2 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 3 | All manner of gatecrashers followed for the next twenty years . |
| 4 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |
| 5 | It combined with a pattern of events that rocked local life for the next twenty years and reiterated a strong belief in Sussex 's particular backwardness . |
| 6 | For Cranmer , who headed the party of Reform for the next twenty years , the task seemed hardly begun . |
| 7 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 8 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 9 | At Sussex University , he met Gail Rebuck , who would figure largely in his life for the next twenty years . |
| 10 | For the next twenty years of his reign he fought against the Byzantines to establish Serbia 's independence . |
| 11 | Sumner was thus introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement , and became a keen member for the next twenty years . |
| 12 | However , he gained the confidence and personal friendship of Pope Pius IX and exercised considerable influence for the next twenty years . |
| 13 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 14 | Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years . |
| 15 | The price list agreed by masters and men in 1787 was generally observed for the next twenty years and with employment brisk , knitters were able to earn , up to 1810 , 14 to 15s ( 70-75p ) a week for a twelve- to thirteen-hour day : too much for their own good , according to a local clerical magistrate . |
| 16 | The necessary bond issue to restrain liquidity will commit the government to paying high rates on these bonds for the next twenty years or so . |
| 17 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 18 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 19 | Well , Tony McCaffery , good luck for the next twenty years . |
| 20 | The figures are relative to a middle-of-the-road estimate of the course of the economy during the next twenty years . |
| 21 | These etchings were produced with a detailed traditional technique , but during the next twenty years his style altered radically to one that verged into the art nouveau school . |
| 22 | They were not only revived from time to time in Venice during the next twenty years but performed in a number of other Italian cities . |
| 23 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |
| 24 | Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years . |
| 25 | And it was sectional organisations such as these which best survived the vicissitudes of the next twenty years , though Wilson 's own creation was bankrupt by 1894 and was only subsequently revived with difficulty . |
| 26 | An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years . |
| 27 | ‘ Hostility to the Forest system grew rapidly in the next twenty years . ’ |
| 28 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 29 | Such wide and varied support guaranteed the success of the Dictionary and a further five editions followed in the next twenty years . |
| 30 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |