Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] [prep] the next [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades .
2 Although foreign loans had been banned , reports indicated that Albania had about US$30,000,000 in short-term debt and $25,000,000 in long-term debt which would fall due over the next 13 years .
3 He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly .
4 How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days .
5 If Punch dies , how do I keep sane for the next 40 years ! !
6 Highly selective vagotomy was introduced about 20 years ago and hence any cancer risk should become apparent in the next few years .
7 Almost every transaction can now be completed by the use of a transfer deed , and this means that the use and the art of preparing a conveyance deed will slowly become obsolete over the next few years .
8 But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so .
9 Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense .
10 Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions .
11 IT IS pleasing that there has been a stay of execution on the proposed closure of the Redmire branch line and that it will remain open for the next six months .
12 The offer of three months salary on top of normal voluntary redundancy packages will stay open for the next three months .
13 An Act passed by the US Congress now provides Federal resources to clean up these hazardous sites — the number of which could increase 10-fold in the next few years .
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