Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 2 | The company has dropped strong hints to union leaders that the current programme involving cuts of 24,000 over the next year will be followed by a further rundown , although at a lower rate . |
| 3 | Showing no remorse , Parrott compiled a 75-break ; he took the lead for the first time with a more orthodox run of 83 in the next and then forged 4–2 ahead with a superb 70 clearance to black in frame six after trailing 58–0 . |
| 4 | Labour won the 1964 election and was in power for 11 of the next 15 years . |
| 5 | Then a curious thing happened — England suddenly began to win , with nine of the next ten meetings going their way , and even while their Test form was wretched somehow turned themselves into perhaps the best one-day side in the world . |
| 6 | After only getting 7 points compared to my target of 10 from the first 6 games , the lads have come back with 14 from the next 6 . |
| 7 | In the case of the Hannibalic War as many as fifty-four hoards have been found , compared with eighteen for the next whole half-century ; in the case of the Civil War there are ninety-eight , compared with twenty-four for the period 1625–41 and nine for 1649–60 . |
| 8 | BOTH America and Britain will probably run current-account surpluses in one of the next few months . |
| 9 | Sales of Knowlton 's and other pamphlets soared , selling in millions over the next few years when previously they had sold in tens of thousands ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 11 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 12 | Despite having an army of 285,000 ( to be cut to 250,000 over the next three years ) , France would have been hard-pressed to do more . |
| 13 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
| 14 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 15 | There are twenty six er coal-fired power stations now , I believe they 'll be down to ten within the next three years , and I think in the electricity generating industry another ten thousand jobs could go . |
| 16 | NIPPON Telegraph and Telephone , the Japanese telecommunications group , is reducing its workforce by 20,000 to 230,000 over the next two years as part of an 80 billion yen ( £343m ) cost-cutting programme . |
| 17 | The 63,500 places now available should not be allowed to reduce to 54,000 over the next five years , as would be the case if the 15 per cent . |
| 18 | The docks currently employ 36 people and this will increase to 51 over the next 18 months as part of plans to expand the business . |
| 19 | Morocco and Tunisia are to be hosts to two of the next sessions of the multilateral Middle East peace talks . |
| 20 | The US will probably benefit from a doubling of middle-aged people aged 45 to 54 over the next 20 years because of the baby boom of the late 1950s . |
| 21 | This number is expected to grow to 4000 over the next five years . |
| 22 | At half-past twelve on the next day , 24 December , I picked up the shafts of the wheelbarrow and pushed off towards Kano on those first , torturous , thirteen miles . |
| 23 | At 0800 on the next morning , the patients returned to the laboratory and shortly after 0900 , the probes and recording equipment were removed . |
| 24 | At seven-thirty of the next morning clock the mighty Leviathan gasped its way into Edinburgh Central without any fanfare whatsoever . |
| 25 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
| 26 | The message which I bring you is , that on the Government 's own figures , business failures will rise by 35,000 in the next 12 months and unemployment will rise much faster yet … ’ |
| 27 | Education Secretary John Patten says the Government wants to boost the number of students in further education by 222,000 over the next three years . |
| 28 | It is slashing its UK retailing workforce by 3,500 over the next five years , a staggering 20% of the 15,000 total . |
| 29 | It might be thought that a programme which proposes to cut the federal workforce by 100,000 over the next four years had scant claim to be a drive for jobs . |
| 30 | We will immediately introduce an emergency programme of investment in the infrastructure and in public works in order to get companies and people back to work , thus reducing unemployment by 600,000 over the next two years . |