Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 2 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 3 | You should be told how to keep that look for the next eight weeks . ’ |
| 4 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
| 5 | It says a great deal for Saxon resilience that the Sussex settlements do not seem to have reverted to wholesale waste , and the pressure was greatly liked in 1017 when Cnut was elected king of England and the country passed under a Scandinavian aegis for the next half century or so . |
| 6 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 7 | In this way lengthy chains of behaviour can be developed with any one event providing the terminating condition for one action and the enabling condition for the next ( see Kelleher , 1966 ) . |
| 8 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's going to be a key figure at this club for the next three or four years , ’ said the Newcastle boss . |
| 10 | Reports also suggested that the delegation 's visit had been timed to coincide with the period marking the start of US budgetary procedures allocating foreign assistance for the next financial year . |
| 11 | The Women Artists Slide Library is presently applying for funds to continue to develop the library , run a fuller service for its members and users and to continue with this work for the next year . |
| 12 | Despite its demise , we still have to pay this tax for the next two years and can be subject to warrant sales or heavy fines for non-payment . |
| 13 | I expect to see us dominating this event for the next few years . ’ |
| 14 | He invited to Scotland the English architect-author Robert William Billings whose Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland provided the source book for the Scottish baronial movement for the next 40 years . |
| 15 | In this state of affairs , the electorate is presented with a clear choice between alternative programmes and parties for government in a way that enables the electorate to choose the government and the broad drift of public policy for the next 5 years . |
| 16 | Back on parade , you lot , ’ shouted Sergeant-Major Philpott , and neither man had the breath to speak another word for the next two hours as they were marched up and down , up and down , until Charlie felt that when they eventually stopped his feet must surely fall off . |
| 17 | The introduction of Chinese practices and ideas continued on a lesser scale for the next eight centuries . |
| 18 | It is a very great privilege to be chosen to represent this ward for the next three years . |
| 19 | Billie stretched her legs while Jenny refuelled and Adam bought some food for the next leg in the cafeteria at the rear of the terminal . |
| 20 | That continued with some effort for the next twenty-five years , when I had the good fortune to be introduced to Lady Collins , who had inspired a succession of what was eventually called Fount Books , some reprints of more expensive books , some specially written for her series , both varieties being published in paperback , at the lowest possible price . |
| 21 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 22 | Planned public expenditure for the next financial year is up by 7 per cent . |
| 23 | As in most dances there is advance and apparent retreat , only to take up a fresh position for the next advance . |
| 24 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 25 | Some of the heavier elements produced near the end of the star 's life would be flung back into the gas in the galaxy , and would provide some of the raw material for the next generation of stars . |
| 26 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 27 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 28 | The same Irish track plays host tomorrow to the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup and though there are no FitzGerald raiders this time , Yorkshire is again holding the ace hand with Jodami , second favourite for the next month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 29 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 30 | At the end of each season , the bottom three clubs in the First Division are relegated to the Second Division for the next season . |