Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If firm 1 reneges , firm 2 in the next period must punish it . |
| 2 | As chart 2 on the next page shows , poor countries throw away lots of vegetable matter — what some rubbish boffins evocatively call ‘ putrescibles ’ . |
| 3 | SCHOOLS FA officials will this week ask the IFA to switch the Ards-Cliftonville Bass Irish Cup semi-final from Friday , April 2 to the next day . |
| 4 | At 0800 on the next morning , the patients returned to the laboratory and shortly after 0900 , the probes and recording equipment were removed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Dec. 25 a 79-member national commission was created to determine the composition and agenda of a National Conference which was scheduled for May 1992 as the next step in the democratization process . |
| 7 | At seven-thirty of the next morning clock the mighty Leviathan gasped its way into Edinburgh Central without any fanfare whatsoever . |
| 8 | ParcPlace intends going to cfront 3.0 with the next release . |
| 9 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |
| 10 | Nationally the Home Office would provide no more than 1,000 officers in this financial year and no more than 500 in the next year , which would give Cheshire six to seven new officers on a pro-rata basis . |
| 11 | A ten For the next hour I took delivery of many additional purchases , the vast majority of which I could n't remember purchasing . |
| 12 | Some recent estimates of the cost nationally in the United States give an idea of the probable scale : curbing carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 levels could absorb between 1 and 2 per cent of GNP , with the sums rising into the trillions in the next century . |
| 13 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 14 | Fishing waggler and maggot with a 22 hook to 1 lb bottom , John took most of his fish in the opening two hours to finish clear of in-form Howard Williams ( Buckley ) who had 5–6–0 at the next peg down . |
| 15 | We had another seventy miles till London and at least another fifteen until the next junction where I could get out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bulwark was commissioned in January 1960 and stationed with her Commando embarked at Singapore ; Albion followed as the second Commando Carrier about a year later ; construction of six Army-owned Landing Ships Logistic ( LSLs ) was authorised in August 1960 ; the Assault Ships Fearless and Intrepid were ordered in 1961 and 1962 ; and design work was started in December 1961 on the next generation of aircraft carriers , the first of which was code-named CVA 01 . |
| 18 | It was after hours , but he noted with pleasure that the letters would catch the 5.30 post the next morning . |
| 19 | It is likely they will plump for a compromise between the two for the next election , likely to be in months rather than years . |
| 20 | I asked which were the next tallest and she picked out the only two of the next size . |
| 21 | Hangleton and many other villages survived only as a single house or two into the next century . |
| 22 | Then , when the buck lay still , another stealthy pace or two before the next freeze . |
| 23 | Nepalese authorities hope to quadruple that figure to a million within the next decade . |
| 24 | At the beginning of 1991 Brady suggested that the operation would cost $80,000 million in the next year alone , and he pressed Congress to provide immediate additional funds . |
| 25 | Mr Lamont estimated that the four moves would save the Exchequer £70 million in the next tax year , rising to more than £480 million the following year . |
| 26 | ‘ While one in every five aircraft is on an operating lease today , this is likely to rise to one in every two over the next decade . |
| 27 | Although Bush did not specify how much such assistance — which would be additional to the $203,000,000 already agreed — would amount to , some US officials suggested that it could measure more than $3,500 million over the next decade . |
| 28 | Britain 's involvement could cost up to £90 million over the next year . |
| 29 | As a result of the collapse of talks in July 1989 at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) [ see p. 36836 ] , officials in September 1989 estimated that Colombia would lose $411 million over the next year , a quarter of annual coffee export earnings . |
| 30 | Fair old stick you gave those two at the next table . ’ |