Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the next [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If the properties were placed in the next lower band , F , the Council Tax reduces to £1,085 .
2 Her fears were justified during the next few hours , and Claudia was relieved when Dana at last went to sleep , curled up in Claudia 's spare bed , her rumpled curls damp with angry tears .
3 A spokesman said more cash calls were expected over the next few months as members become faced with increasing demands from agents to meet large losses .
4 To these eight , a further thirteen children were added over the next twenty years .
5 Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published .
6 The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election .
7 If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs .
8 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
9 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
10 Within the two weeks confidently predicted by Havelock Wilson company after company and local shipowner association after association made its peace with advances in wages and on 28 June some 100 shipowners met in London and decided , among other things , on the standardisation of the local rates which were accepted over the next few days .
11 As control families were traced through their general practitioner with the facilities offered by the central register , families who emigrated before the study began ( five ) and those whose current family health services authority was not recorded ( five ) or incorrectly recorded ( 11 ) were replaced by the next eligible control in the series .
12 Those assigned to surgery were scheduled for the next available or convenient operating list .
13 Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months .
14 Encounters with Donald were documented for the next 6 years , during which time he travelled on a southward odyssey along some 480 km ( 300 miles ) of British coastline , from the Isle of Man to Wales and then to Cornwall , stopping off in small harbours , boat havens and coves along the way to socialise .
15 The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety .
16 Other services were established during the next few years .
17 This measure was repeated in 1297 and fines were paid during the next four years .
18 After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed .
19 Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ .
20 East Anglia was forgotten in the next three novels .
21 A General Election was expected during the next two years , but already there were signs that the Peace Alliance was preparing to test its strength among the electorate .
22 Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues .
23 It brought to an end the era of amphibians and it was introduced by the next great group to appear , the reptiles .
24 The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped .
25 One patient developed a transitory respiratory arrest and the procedure was deferred for the next 48 hours .
26 With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation .
27 The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that
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