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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The troubles which surrounded the bishop 's authority in the 1570s were matched by growing economic uncertainty for the next eighty years or so . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The introduction of Chinese practices and ideas continued on a lesser scale for the next eight centuries . |
| 10 | Planned public expenditure for the next financial year is up by 7 per cent . |
| 11 | As in most dances there is advance and apparent retreat , only to take up a fresh position for the next advance . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative . |
| 17 | Jay borrowed Lucy 's pre-occupied indifference for the next little while . |
| 18 | Sec. " and plan a joint campaign for the next meeting . |
| 19 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 20 | This procedure resulted in considerable damage to the sphincter and was replaced by a technique of abdominal mucosectomy and sutured ileoanastomosis for the next 58 operations . |
| 21 | A joint candidate for the next presidential elections would be selected through the holding of " primaries " . |
| 22 | The struggle to determine the party 's attitude to the aspirations of Labour was to be its chief battleground for the next six years . |
| 23 | The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year . |
| 24 | In recognition of the importance of our work , I am pleased to report that our Central Government grant was increased last year to £140,00 with guaranteed funding for the next three years . |
| 25 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 26 | THE Labour Party National Executive yesterday endorsed a campaigning strategy for the next year in which the party will seek to popularise its policy review while focusing its opposition to the Government on health , the economy , the poll tax , teacher shortages , and transport . |
| 27 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 28 | Yesterday at Lord 's the Test and County Cricket Board announced separate deals involving both Sky TV and British Satellite Broadcasting for the transmission of a large segment of the domestic game for the next three years . |
| 29 | The obvious choice for the next Phoenix King was Malekith , Aenarion 's son by Morathi . |
| 30 | Bucephalus became Alexander 's constant companion for the next eighteen years , and Alexander rode Bucephalus in all the wars and campaigns that were to make his empire larger than any other that had ever preceded it . |