They feared they would have faced several years of licence-fee cuts if talks over a deal had begun next year as originally planned.
Stephen Morris of Bus Users UK said passengers faced several years of rises in excess of inflation and at a faster rate than the cost of motoring.
EVER since America's stockmarket bubble burst in 2000, The Economist has argued that America faced several years of sluggish growth, if not a deep recession, as the economy worked off the excesses that built up in the late 1990s.
Large parts of China had been under foreign occupation for up to 14 years and like Russia after World War I still faced several years of destructive civil war.
He'd faced several years of false starts, but after that the books seemed to come more easily, and he'd written more than twenty by the time he died of a heart attack, in 1999, just seven days before his sixtieth birthday.
When she quit, Virginia's husband had recently lost his job and the family faced several years of great financial instability.
