I'm not sure about your first example... I thought to myself "As an Englishman, what would I think about in the future?" and can't figure out a way to omit 'the'.
Could you use it in a sentence?
Could you use it in a sentence?
There's an entire WP page on these differences that are pretty interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_g...
As always, your local dialect may differ!