Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 2 | You should be told how to keep that look for the next eight weeks . ’ |
| 3 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
| 4 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 5 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 6 | ‘ I have interesting plans for the next few centuries . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
| 8 | Reports also suggested that the delegation 's visit had been timed to coincide with the period marking the start of US budgetary procedures allocating foreign assistance for the next financial year . |
| 9 | Despite its demise , we still have to pay this tax for the next two years and can be subject to warrant sales or heavy fines for non-payment . |
| 10 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 11 | I expect to see us dominating this event for the next few years . ’ |
| 12 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 13 | In this state of affairs , the electorate is presented with a clear choice between alternative programmes and parties for government in a way that enables the electorate to choose the government and the broad drift of public policy for the next 5 years . |
| 14 | Now that you have a goal and some objectives for the next five years , let's concentrate on some more specific objectives for the next year . |
| 15 | Back on parade , you lot , ’ shouted Sergeant-Major Philpott , and neither man had the breath to speak another word for the next two hours as they were marched up and down , up and down , until Charlie felt that when they eventually stopped his feet must surely fall off . |
| 16 | The introduction of Chinese practices and ideas continued on a lesser scale for the next eight centuries . |
| 17 | It is a very great privilege to be chosen to represent this ward for the next three years . |
| 18 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 19 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 20 | Planned public expenditure for the next financial year is up by 7 per cent . |
| 21 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 22 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 23 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 24 | We will have a brand new product launch every six months for the next three years . |
| 25 | Jay borrowed Lucy 's pre-occupied indifference for the next little while . |
| 26 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 27 | This year we are investing a record £1000m in science , an increase of seven per cent on last year , and the budget will continue to rise in real terms for the next three years . |
| 28 | This procedure resulted in considerable damage to the sphincter and was replaced by a technique of abdominal mucosectomy and sutured ileoanastomosis for the next 58 operations . |
| 29 | A joint candidate for the next presidential elections would be selected through the holding of " primaries " . |
| 30 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |