Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] the next [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a second list of other pieces you think you would like when you can afford them , say over the next five years or so . |
| 2 | I hope over the next few months to be writing about all these accessories in more detail . |
| 3 | Whatever the outcome , the liaison needs of the Branch Committee can not be ignored and so I hope over the next three years that this can be improved to enable a transition through which active liaison is maintained . |
| 4 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 5 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 6 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 7 | The really pointless measure is letting councils spend the money they get over the next few years from selling homes and other properties . |
| 8 | Mr Hunter and the other candidates will therefore be taking their election bandwagon and Pro-Life message to council offices and other workplaces throughout the region where NALGO members organise over the next five weeks . |
| 9 | Activities that would lead towards the objective of writing a short story might be , ‘ clear the spare room out and set up a desk ’ , ‘ enrol on a weekend workshop on creative writing ’ , ‘ set aside the next four Sunday afternoons for writing ’ , ‘ arrange to visit a friend in six weeks ’ time with a completed first draft' . |
| 10 | ‘ You never know when the next big story will break . ’ |
| 11 | The New Year feast is only one of a number of sumptuous meals that follow as relatives arrive over the next few days . |
| 12 | You 'll be surprised how quickly they lower over the next few days . |
| 13 | I go to the back of the file and sort out the next complete document . |
| 14 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 15 | Write down the next two lines of a pattern of the bottom of the opposite page . |
| 16 | A is A two , write down the next two lines . |
| 17 | It will inevitably take some time before the full benefits of our strategy are realised and , whilst we expect our production and cash flow to remain strong and rise over the next few years , profitability in the short term is likely to remain depressed , even with contributions from disposals . |
| 18 | If lamb prices rise over the next few years , as they may well do , then the subsidies will fall . |
| 19 | What the strategy does do , is to formalize and focus the analysis in a way that gives everybody concerned the essential basis for developing and judging good advertising — the two aspects that take up the next two chapters . |
| 20 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 21 | If his fortunes improve over the next six years you are still entitled to collect on your judgement debt . |
| 22 | Similar incidents occur over the next few months , a pattern emerges , surveilance teams are used and eventually the intruder is arrested . |