Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] next few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zahedi asked whether the Shah could come to the States in the next few days . |
| 2 | Additional packages of work estimated at £2 million are expected to be sub-contracted to Instem in the next few months . |
| 3 | Strachan looked in a bad way ( hacked unforgivably from behind ) so maybe we 'll be seeing more of Rocky in the next few weeks . |
| 4 | Gloucester , which saw active service in the Gulf War , will monitor traffic to and from Serbia and Montenegro for the next few months . |
| 5 | He 's due to return from Spain in the next few days . |
| 6 | The London area plays a pivotal role in national migration patterns ( Flowerdew and Salt , 1979 ; Salt and Flowerdew , 1980 ) , so policy developments relating to south-east England over the next few years will be crucial to the way in which urban and regional patterns of population distribution evolve in the foreseeable future . |
| 7 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 8 | On 22 October documents were removed from Winchester 's offices by Mr. Wells , in company with the compliance officer of Norwich , and the documents were examined by Mr. Wells over the next few days . |
| 9 | There is no doubt his departure will be a big blow to Mr Major , and will undercut Mr Garel-Jones ' authority as he battles to push the Maastricht Treaty through the Commons in the next few months . |
| 10 | Mr Clarke wrote to the MP Greville Janner to tell him that regulations to allow men to work as au pairs would be put before the House of Commons in the next few months . |
| 11 | He would like to think , he said , that his mind will not wander to the race at Aintree in the next few days , that he will not run it through his mind , that it will not permeate his waking life . |
| 12 | Bob made a point of taking a benevolent interest in Morris over the next few days , to balance out Dyson 's hostility . |
| 13 | Thirty volunteers will be travelling to Croatia over the next few weeks , taking three operating theatres from St. Mary 's Hospital , Portsmouth with them . |
| 14 | TO MARK the end of the winter season of Head races , three major events take place on the Thames over the next few days . |
| 15 | The Bryson House charity is aiming to raise sufficient money to have the proposed centre operating on the Lagan within the next few months . |
| 16 | With a Hong Kong stock market listing for P&O obtained last September , a new company , P&O Asia , is to be launched in Hong Kong within the next few weeks . |
| 17 | Nokia Oy 's Nokia Telecommunications says it has signed an agreement with Ukrainian Mobile Communications for the supply of switching and base station equipment for the Ukrainian NMT 450 cellular mobile telephone network : the network is to be launched commercially in Kiev in the next few weeks and will become available in two other major cities by the end of this year ; Ukrainian Mobile Communications is jointly owned by Ukrainian local operators , Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV and Telecom Denmark Ltd . |
| 18 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 19 | Privately British officials believe Mr Patten will now have to endure a barrage of criticism from China over the next few weeks , following Prime Minister Li Peng 's report to the 8th National Party Congress next Monday at which he is expected to lambast the colonial administration for trying to subvert China with western-style democracy . |
| 20 | Britain is to send four ships which took part in the Falklands War , to carry the desert rats to the Gulf : Sir Tristram , Sir Galahad , Sir Bevedere and er Sir Bedevere and Sir Percival are expected to start picking up tanks from West Germany in the next few weeks . |
| 21 | Other offices are planned for Italy and Germany in the next few months . |
| 22 | I shall arrange for my herbalist to call on Ben within the next few days . ’ |
| 23 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 24 | The shoes and boots will be shipped out to Bosnia within the next few weeks . |
| 25 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 26 | Informix Software Inc intends to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary in Eastern Europe during the next few months , but 80% of its business will remain with value-added resellers and distributors . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 29 | The Queen , who is due to visit Balmoral in the next few weeks , was immediately informed of her mother 's condition . |
| 30 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |