Example sentences of "[prep] the next 40 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 2 | For the next 40 years the name of Edna Jacques was the synonym for ‘ saleable verse ’ and she published volume after volume . |
| 3 | If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! ! |
| 4 | Across the Atlantic , the Indian hockey team was in its pomp , winning the hockey tournament at the Los Angeles Olympics , and dominated hockey for the best part of the next 40 years . |
| 5 | Most parts of Australia are expected to become hotter and wetter in the next 40 years ; more open water lying on the surface is likely to increase the risk of insect-borne diseases such as Ross River fever , Dengue and Bluetongue now confined to Northern Australia spreading throughout the country . |
| 6 | One recent study ** looks at four ways in which a treaty might , over the next 40 years , cut global emissions to 50% less than the levels they would reach without a change in policy . |
| 7 | Even though the decline will be succeeded by a modest rise , Britain 's dependency ratio over the next 40 years should rise by only eight percentage points , to 31% . |
| 8 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 9 | It is anticipated that life expectancy at birth will rise by 2–3 years over the next 40 years . |
| 10 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 11 | Scientists have been measuring the tide at Burnham-on-Sea , jotting down hours of sunlight , measuring the temperature to 14 decimal places and they have come to the conclusion that water levels could rise by a foot over the next 40 years . |
| 12 | The first report to investigate the projected effects of global warming on Britain over the next 40 years has been released by the Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | The report , compiled by the Washington-based International Institute for Energy Conservation , says that a total of £1.2 trillion could be saved over the next 40 years if the Bank provided adequate support for energy efficiency in transport , industry , power stations and the domestic market . |