Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , we were unable to book a proposed two-day conference for 70 delegates within the next three months . |
| 2 | He played in the team which beat Notts County 2–1 after three replays in the next round . |
| 3 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 4 | Decommissioning the station will cost £220 million and will result in the loss of 490 jobs over the next two years . |
| 5 | But Norman , who ended his 28-month exile from the winner 's rostrum in the Canadian Open in September , unleashed a punishing run of three birdies in the next five holes to reach the turn in 31 against Faldo 's 33 . |
| 6 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 7 | It has now prepared a short-list of five projects for the next round of decisions to be made in a year or two , although the agency warns that these more ambitious and expensive projects can only be funded at the rate of one every 2½ years . |
| 8 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
| 9 | The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage . |
| 10 | In the next few minutes the small parties moved in quick spurts from the deep shadow of one warehouse to the next black patch of cover . |
| 11 | This secures work for 55 employees for the next four years and David is delighted that the council recognised its own catering organisation as providing best value for money . |
| 12 | As a result , HDS , which PRC bid as part of its offering , could see orders potentially worth 43,000 units over the next five years , an estimated value of $75m . |
| 13 | So she says they usually put schedules on for fourteen month for the next ten months , twelve months . |
| 14 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm expecting him to report and , with five matches in the next four weeks , any player who is not fit for the first game will not necessarily miss the rest of them , ’ said Taylor . |
| 16 | He spawned with two females in the next few days and they produced 82 and 64 fry . |
| 17 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 18 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 19 | Nonetheless , designs vary significantly from one year to the next , even if the subtle , sludgy fabrics remain essentially the same . |
| 20 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , Miss Danziger , you must allow it is rather unusual for guests to keep engagements from one year to the next , as you do . |
| 22 | Also the grass grows for only a short-season , and the amount of hay which can be cut and dried varies from one year to the next . |
| 23 | And travelling maintenance crews may not turn up from one year to the next because of the immense areas they have to cover . |
| 24 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 25 | It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next . |
| 26 | On the other hand , however much it might be in demand , Indian patronage was never plentiful , for it fluctuated from one year to the next in accordance with Indian needs rather than the wishes of the Scottish politician . |
| 27 | As Italy 's financial year closes at the end of the calendar year and money can not be held over from one year to the next , there is not enough time to distribute and use such funds as have been allocated . |
| 28 | The level of rates could also rise substantially from one year to the next and was unpredictable as a basis for business decisions . |
| 29 | Could I carry my miles over from one year to the next ? |
| 30 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |