Example sentences of "next few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 2 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 3 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 4 | Erm , now I can produce some variants on the next few figures , they , this is the one in the third paragraph which says that two thousand eight hundred , er took two eight nine one two , er , hours would be needed this year , that is working on the commissions erm current estimate of six percent of complaints going to stage two , erm , the reality in York is that seven point five percent are going to stage two , and if one took account of that reality , and I 'm bound to say that in in estimating terms we do n't , but if one did take in reality that would push that figure for this year up to thirty thousand four hundred and forty nine . |
| 5 | ASK ANY thoughtful person for a list of the problems likely to confront Britain in the next few decades and he or she will have no trouble answering . |
| 6 | Because the poles will heat more than the equator , there will be a tremendous imbalance in energy over the next few decades , which seems bound to produce enormously turbulent and changeable weather , including gales , floods , and late frosts . |
| 7 | Besides , the temperature would continue to rise over the next few decades even if greenhouse gases stayed as they are , simply because the world is so slow to warm up , and has not yet responded to what is there already . |
| 8 | The next few decades were to be a period of accelerating changes for the mills of the area as Hicks , who in 1806 became Lord of the Manor , systematically extended his empire . |
| 9 | What happened over the next few decades is not clear , but it seems likely that the fulling mills were dismantled and by 1801 , Stratford Mills were advertised for sale , solely as a corn mill . |
| 10 | Over the next few decades there are references to a Mr S.R. Pattison producing cloth , as well as of a Mr Farrar , leasing all or part of the mill for dyeing . |
| 11 | The next few decades saw a number of changes of ownership with such people as John Clarke and later , John Chalk running the mill . |
| 12 | Over the next few decades , more steam mills were established in Gloucester . |
| 13 | The particular needs of elderly members of ethnic minorities will become more important over the next few decades as the population ages and its profile becomes similar to that of the white population . |
| 14 | But during the next few decades , nitrates and minerals in the Andes , wheat and beef in Argentina , and coffee in Brazil were to draw the railways outwards . |
| 15 | Keyworth said then that anti-missile lasers are the stuff of fantasy for the next few decades . |
| 16 | In other long-established deaf centres , members began to arrange day outings now that omnibuses were more readily available , and these were to be a feature of deaf life in the next few decades . |
| 17 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 18 | There seems to the writer little doubt that unemployment due to automation will grow steadily over the next few decades , perhaps centuries , and in the end it is likely to reach a very high figure , say ninety per cent of the labour force , unless radical changes are made in the present pattern of working . |
| 19 | Wages did not rise in proportion , and by the Spring of 1795 there was the extensive distress and threat of mass starvation which led , in May , to the infamous meeting of the magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire , an event which would have such an impact on poor-law provision for the next few decades . |
| 20 | Fourth , with the likely acquisition of nuclear weapons by at least some additional states in the next few decades , the need for some clear rules of the road so far as nuclear weapons are concerned may actually increase . |
| 21 | During the next few decades chlorine is expected to increase then decrease , while CO 2 is expected to increase continuously . |
| 22 | If such population gains are repeated in the next few decades , the traditional demographic map of rural areas will be completely transformed . |
| 23 | The fossil record seemed to indicate sudden steps rather than continuous development , although new discoveries over the next few decades would help the evolutionists ' case . |
| 24 | Over the next few decades he developed the study of plant communities in Britain , using methods similar to those of Clements . |
| 25 | To play a part in the problems of geology over the next few decades geomorphologists must forget their trivial catchments and see mega forests instead of trees … |
| 26 | The latter was to become the orthodoxy of the next few decades , whereas Collingwood died in 1943 virtually in the shadows , for more reasons than one . |
| 27 | Over the next few decades community life-style in Britain is likely to become increasingly diverse . |
| 28 | On the other hand , without the use of a simulation model it is difficult to visualize the effect that changes in fertility or in mortality are likely to have on trends over the next few decades . |
| 29 | With such projections , then , over the next few decades , the world will lose the bulk of the rain forest remaining today . |
| 30 | In general , it seems likely that what will emerge over the next few decades will be two parallel systems : one with large offshore windmills , wave power generators and tidal barrages providing electricity for the grid ; the other more decentralised , with solar and biomas providing heat on a small scale local basis , coupled with small windmills , water mills and turbines in rivers and streams providing electricity in certain mainly rural areas . |