four-year plan
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plan
noun
uk/plæn/us/plæn/
a set of decisions about how to do something in ...
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After two weeks of virtual house arrest, he was invited back to his position the day that the firstfour-yearplanwas signed.
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This is now part of afour-yearplanto reduce the number of posts by 30,000.
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We ought to be planning our exports over a four-year period—afour-yearplan.
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We have put forward the suggestion that it should be afour-yearplanfor ending the call-up.
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I want to see afour-yearplanof economy.
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We have had afour-yearplan, of which only three years are left to run.
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There are no figures given for the rate of inflation under this wonderfulfour-yearplan.
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Now from 1955 to 1959, we have afour-yearplan.
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One of the main planks in myfour-yearplan, is the improvement of our dairy stock.
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It was because at this moment we wanted maximum food production that thefour-yearplanwas introduced.
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Then there is the agricultural plan, thefour-yearplan.
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The second great plank in ourfour-yearplanis the increase in our livestock, and, above all, an improvement in its quality.
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The firstfour-yearplan, the crop production plan, is now drawing to its close.
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What is to be the nextfour-yearplan?
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He has given us hisfour-yearplan, or whatever it has been called.
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Obviously we cannot do this in afour-yearplan, because it will take several years.
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In thefour-yearplan, 400 new places will be made available in new secure units for boys and girls sentenced to custody.
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The plain truth is that we have afour-yearplan, a four-year financial cycle.
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In 1955, they announced afour-yearplan; and that is the position we have arrived at.
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It is generally agreed that agriculture cannot be let down again after this war, and we have heard recently of afour-yearplanfor agriculture.
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