Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] over the next " in BNC.

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1 That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself .
2 However , her feelings of hopelessness increased over the next 3 weeks and late one night , after she had been drinking alone , she took an overdose of the tranquillizer mixed with paracetamol and then went to bed .
3 As the frontiers of empire contracted over the next half-century , the dispossessed loyalists were either to leave home and livelihood for the safety of the mother country or else endeavour to seek pardon and accommodation with their new masters .
4 It was also planned to extensively landscape the road with tree planting over the next 12 months to make it blend in with the surrounding area .
5 In 1866 Stirling succeeded Archibald Sturrock as locomotive superintendent of the Great Northern Railway at Doncaster and in the next year his 0–4–2 type mixed-traffic locomotive was first introduced , with construction continuing over the next twenty-eight years , as well as the 2–4–0 type for passenger service .
6 The English Tourist Board forecast is for 10 per cent growth in conference spending over the next two years .
7 The plan calls for a 17 percent reduction in timber felling over the next year , but avoids offering long tern protection to the owl or its habitat .
8 The director , however , stressed the need for constraint due to cuts in spending anticipated over the next year , and suggested that the governors select particular matters for prioritization .
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