Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in the 1950s the core was losing heavily , and this worsened in the next decade . |
| 2 | Increases in CO 2 anticipated over the next 50 years are expected to produce such a change by cooling the lower stratosphere . |
| 3 | In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades . |
| 4 | There must have been a tacit appreciation among many potential benefactors at the end of the thirteenth century that there were already too many religious houses : whereas over seven hundred new houses had been founded in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , just over sixty followed in the next century and most of those were friaries . |
| 5 | ( The ‘ higher powers ’ of an intransitive relation arise when there are chains of elements each related to the next by the relation in question ; thus , if A is the father of B , B of C , and C of D , then A stands in the ‘ third power ’ of the relation ’ — father of — ’ to D. ) It can easily be seen that A in 1(a) and P in 1(b) fulfil this requirement ( assuming , of course , that the lines in the diagrams symbolise the relation of dominance ) . |
| 6 | So the Irish went for the next best thing , consultative status , getting a toe in the door . |