Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career . |
| 2 | They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit . |
| 3 | During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years . |
| 4 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 5 | Ebles of Ventadour , the only other troubadour known from William IX 's time , came from the Limousin , and most of the outstanding song-writers of the next generation — Cercamon , Marcabru , Jaufré Rudel , Bernard de Ventadour — lived and worked within the borders of Aquitaine . |
| 6 | Long ago , the broad tactics for the next and final stage of this war had been decided ; all that remained were a host of small decisions and , of course , the normal government of his kingdom . |
| 7 | The ERA became law on 29 July 1988 , though each of its many provisions will come into force at different times over the next few years . |
| 8 | New Internationalist Freepost Mitcham CR4 9AR ( No stamp needed ) Yes Please send me , without obligation , my free copies of the next three issues of the New Internationalist plus the world map and book token . |
| 9 | The day before we left , we celebrated Ned 's 21st with lunch in a good restaurant ( the popping of the champagne cork causing much alarm and despondency among the old dears at the next table ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I have interesting plans for the next few centuries . |
| 11 | The government argued that ‘ if real progress is to be made in tackling some of the major concentrations of problems , special efforts must be focused on a few cities in the next few years ’ ( HMSO , 1977 , p. 16 ) . |
| 12 | The move is part of the Birmingham company 's strategy to have open systems versions of all its 12 products within the next three years . |
| 13 | It is not the entirely understandable worries about the choice of South Africa as the tournament venue when that country is in so delicate a political — and hence economically sensitive — state , but rather the veil of secrecy that seems to shroud all commercial aspects of the next World Cup event . |
| 14 | This is difficult , particularly as most studies of the effects of the plague have tended to concentrate on the fourteenth-century epidemics , the Black Death of 1348–49 and the further outbreaks of the next generation , rather than on the recurrent visitations of the fifteenth century ( see Framework ) . |
| 15 | On jobs , its almost certain there will be further losses during the next two years , but bear in mind that when I asked for SVS volunteers last September more than 230 people applied . |
| 16 | We can not afford to wait t a few months before the next election . |
| 17 | The screening takes place in the coming few months in the next stage of a three-year programme . |
| 18 | There were ten further performances over the next eight days . |
| 19 | The £2.4 million project is part of a £7 million investment in the Drumchapel estate by Scottish Homes over the next 12 months . |
| 20 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 21 | Mozart seems to have begun to refine his style of composition , and two of them at least stand well with the very popular symphonies of the next decade — the Symphony in G Minor , K.183/173dB , written in October 1773 just after his return from Vienna , and the Symphony in A major , K.201/186a , written in April the following year ( see PLATE IV and 19 & 20 ) . |
| 22 | We had quite a few visitors over the next few days and Amin , particularly , was very encouraging . |
| 23 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 24 | She had two further attacks in the next two days . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that the pope was compulsorily absent for more than half the century between 1099 and 1198 and for a total of 67 years in the next century ( 1198 – 1304 ) . |
| 26 | unc The fraction unc is called an improper fraction and is a different way of writing 1½ You will learn more about improper fractions in the next exercise . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 29 | These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so . |
| 30 | Billy was not at all impressed by the chapel and was trying to out-stare some heifers in the next field . |