Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the consequences for this group include over 120 spontaneous leukaemias during the next 50 years and an increased risk of genetic disorders in future generations ( Anspaugh et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Before any sale , the Department of Energy would want to remove any loss-making capacity , but all parties were shocked by a government-commissioned report from merchant bank NM Rothschild , which was widely leaked , forecasting that the industry could be reduced to 12 deep pits over the next three years . |
| 3 | A US Department of Energy report has predicted output to rise from 890 million tonnes to 1,240 million tonnes in the next 20 years . |
| 4 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 5 | Intelsat plans to take the capacity as a stop-gap while it awaits delivery of 10 new birds over the next four years . |
| 6 | The bill provided for expenditure cuts of over 30,000 million kronor over the next three years in addition to cuts of 27,000 million kronor already announced in January ( the figure of 14,000 million kronor given on p. 38737 representing the net spending cut ) . |
| 7 | The one move that is seen as a means of significantly improving the picture is another sharp improvement in efficiency — but that means still more job cuts , and word is that the company is considering seeking another 70,000 voluntary redundancies over the next four years , brining its workforce down to just 100,000 by 1997 , compared with 240,000 in 1991 ; finding more volunteers should not be too hard — its last offer was massively oversubscribed , but ironically , many of those that depart will end up working for its incoming competitors . |
| 8 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 9 | And , barely 24 hours after leaving London , with places to be won in four Tests and eight one-day internationals over the next 12 weeks , no one was prepared to break ranks . |
| 10 | The US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has appealed to industry to halve emissions of 17 toxic substances over the next four years — or face potentially costly controls imposed by government . |
| 11 | Although Mrs Thatcher 's opposition will prevent the declaration having any legal force , the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , made it clear he would be coming forward with detailed proposals on a range of minimum social rights for workers in the 1992 single market over the next 12 months — some of which would have binding legal force throughout the Community . |
| 12 | The right hon. Gentleman quotes job losses , but he fails to mention Tesco 's plans for 5,000 new jobs over the next year , Safeway 's plans for 2,000 jobs , Nissan 's plans for 600 new jobs in the north-east , and the fact that Toyota is providing another 3,000 jobs in Derbyshire . |
| 13 | Last year , the government announced it would receive a $20 thousand million investment over the next five years , including private sector funds . |
| 14 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 15 | There were ten further performances over the next eight days . |
| 16 | British Telecom is to axe twenty-five thousand jobs over the next year partly because of the recession . |
| 17 | ( 1988 ) was that their S2 varied from one pre-exposure trial to the next . |
| 18 | He even wears checked trousers and a natty sports jacket , as he describes to his son Art how , in 1944 , he survived 10 months in Auschwitz , dodging from one hair's-breadth escape to the next , outwitting his enemies by the skin of his teeth , emerging miraculously intact at the end of each cliff-hanging episode of this astounding strip cartoon . |
| 19 | Ideas of how the Universe will die vary from one scientific theory to the next . |
| 20 | However , aspiring unsigned acts with a reputation to make are n't likely to be in a position to sweeten up the hordes of sceptical scribes in the West End of London who spend their days loafing from one free lunch to the next . |
| 21 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical period to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 22 | Other teachers point out that evaluations of Shakespeare have varied from one historical point to the next , and they argue that pupils should be encouraged to think critically about his status in the canon . |
| 23 | Others may have been maintaining a stressful lifestyle for years , always rushing onwards , filling their time with one impossible task after the next . |
| 24 | Back in the house , she went from one ordinary object to the next , chairs , tables , bookcases , touching and leaning against them as if for help . |
| 25 | That a visa for travel to West Germany can be refused on ‘ moral ’ grounds is highly unusual ; a regard for ‘ national security ’ is much more the norm … will it mean no visas for all ‘ bearers of state secrets ’ , a category which can be variously defined from one individual case to the next ? … |
| 26 | Two mini studios , MGM-Pathe ( see also page 111 ) and Orion , have lurched from one corporate drama to the next . |
| 27 | On my experience dealing with people is however forgetful they get you know nursing homes or residential homes or whatever and they ca n't really remember from one corresponding conversation to the next they still remember that they 've got two children and that they own a bank account . |
| 28 | Consequently , although pressure forces are important in collimating gas onto closed orbits , they are unimportant during the long periods in which the gas drifts from one closed orbit to the next . |
| 29 | Although a recent constitutional amendment protected a new government from a motion of no confidence during the first 18 months of its existence , it appeared unlikely that Wingti 's new government would be strong enough to break the country 's traditional pattern of politics by becoming the first since independence to survive from one general election to the next . |
| 30 | And distances from one inhabited place to the next are often lengthy , involving hour-long journeys . |