Example sentences of "[adv] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 2 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 3 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 4 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 5 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 6 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 7 | Russia 's debt problems were highlighted in a World Bank study released in late September which indicated that the country would need some US$20,000 million of external financial resources annually for the next few years to sustain economic reforms . |
| 8 | The UNEP Executive Director , Mostafa Tolba , said that this target would require governments to " increase their voluntary contributions by 35 per cent annually for the next three years to reach the target " . |
| 9 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 10 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 11 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 13 | England was now at war with Hitler 's Germany , and would be so for the next six years . |
| 14 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 15 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 16 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 17 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 18 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 19 | The pal then puts his phone receiver to the radio and Mike listens in for the next 90 minutes — cost £6.75 . |
| 20 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 21 | Also in that cast was a young John Robertson Hare [ q.v. ] , and the team of Walls , Hare , and Lynn was thus created , one which was to stay together for the next eleven years . |
| 22 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 23 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 24 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 26 | From about 1750 , population increased yearly for the next 226 years ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 27 | But what I would like to do is to keep him here , just for the next few hours . |
| 28 | If I was to er ask you to er just for the next ten minutes to start listing out the advertisers that you think might go into these , my guess is you 'd only get twenty five percent |
| 29 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 30 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |