Example sentences of "[prep] the next forty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the black winter of early 1947 , something else happened which was to provide a general justification for the next forty years of dredging and river clearance . |
| 2 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 3 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |
| 4 | At the beginning of the 19th century the condition of the agricultural workers was desperately poor and for the next forty years wages did not improve . |
| 5 | Claim twelve times a year for the next forty years , right up until retirement age , if they wish . |
| 6 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 7 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 8 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 9 | In the next forty years no fewer than 1,479 enclosure acts were passed , dealing with nearly 2½ million acres . |
| 10 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 11 | This process had begun when James turned his own proprietorship of New York into a royal colony on becoming king , and over the next forty years Maryland , the re-united New Jersey , and the two Carolinas all became royal colonies . |
| 12 | Both characteristics were to distinguish his rule over the next forty years . |
| 13 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 14 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |
| 15 | Some 1 million cubic metres of radioactive material will be stored in the dump over the next forty years . |