Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |
| 2 | Indeed , the spokesman said that Cognito 's break-even point is around 3,500 subscribers , and that it is ahead of its plan to achieve this within the next one to two years . |
| 3 | The white-and-red type remained unchanged for the next two centuries and it has elements of common origin with the Ayrshire of Scotland ( which is basically white with brown markings , especially on the neck and face ) . |
| 4 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 5 | Among DIY and hardware retailers , only one in a hundred expects business to get better in the next three months . |
| 6 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 7 | Only confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents remain optimistic : every other retailing sector identified in the CBI survey expects business to get tougher over the next three months . |
| 8 | What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days . |
| 9 | With big increases in the numbers of bonds falling due over the next three years , defaults seem sure to rise further . |
| 10 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 11 | Retailers , wholesalers and motor traders all expect their businesses to become worse over the next three months . |
| 12 | IBM EUROPE will cut nearly 10,000 jobs and has told four plants in Britain , France , Spain and Sweden to prove profitable in the next 12 months , a spokesman in Paris said yesterday . |
| 13 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 14 | Jack spent most of the next day at the hospital , but he left around six , telling his mother he was going to meet a friend . |
| 15 | Longevity seems set for the next few years , at least , to have , at best , a sharply reduced economic value . |
| 16 | Her illness got worse in the next few days . |
| 17 | And road ripped ready for the next day you see ? |
| 18 | If we accept Massey 's ( 1984a ) argument regarding ‘ layers of investment ’ as the mechanism through which places are constantly being remade , then we are similarly accepting the longer-lived view of the landscape as a palimpsest , a parchment on which several ( perhaps many ) layers of human occupance have been laid , with the nature of each layer influencing that of the next . |
| 19 | Soon it 's time for the cyclists to get ready for the next stage of their 1,500 mile journey . |
| 20 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is expected to report operating losses of up to $245m for 1992 in its end of year figures due over the next couple of months , according to Italian press reports . |
| 21 | That 's the trouble with though she did n't stop every time to get ready for the next scene . |
| 22 | If a sticker chart is used it is helpful to encourage the family to bring this to the next session at the clinic so that the child can demonstrate his or her achievements and gain additional praise . |