Example sentences of "[prep] the next fifty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | While working in films Mary set the pattern of work for the next fifty years . |
| 2 | This was the first English Bible printed in Roman type and with verse divisions , which are among the reasons why it was enormously popular and , for the next fifty years , the most commonly owned and read version in England . |
| 3 | This new fashion for dressing a corpse was to remain in vogue for the next fifty years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The principal characteristic of African economies in the next fifty years will then be an urban market which will in aggregate be very valuable but will have a low income per head . |
| 6 | The breeze of competitive change dictates that the professional who wishes to survive must be a very different animal in the next fifty years from previously , and that no surveyor can approach the problems of the future with attitudes and practices which are rooted in the past . |
| 7 | Holy Living and Holy Dying made him famous and went through twenty editions in the next fifty years . |
| 8 | But I might do in the next fifty years any of them . |
| 9 | Over the next fifty years , a significant change in policy took place . |
| 10 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 11 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 12 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 13 | No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights . |
| 14 | In 1878 he pioneered the introduction of 2–6–0 type freight locomotives in Britain and , as consultant to the London , Tilbury and Southend Railway , 4–4–2 passenger tank locomotives , which were highly successful and were built in enlarged form over the next fifty years . |