Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the next [num] " in BNC.

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1 Without tailing his futures position , Roy must bear the additional cost of financing the payment of variation margin of ( 53 500 - — 53 000 ) × 1905 = £952 500 for the next three months , that is , £952 500 × 0.02411 = £22 965 .
2 Up 3–1 in the first set , she conceded 12 of the next 13 points and , at one stage in the second set , she lost another 14 consecutive points .
3 A break of 96 had suggested the possibility of a fight back but Doherty eliminated such thoughts with breaks of 40 and 53 in the next two frames .
4 At least 30 per cent of all ICI sales in this product area are expected to convert to ‘ Dumpy ’ 2 in the next three years .
5 The State of World Population 1992 report , released on April 29 by the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) , projected an annual increase in the world 's population of about 97,000,000 over the next ten years .
6 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 .
7 Crucially though — in the title year we then hit very good form , winning 7 of the next 8 matches .
8 Unemployment — mainly a result of the opening of the new Polish port at Gdynia — had risen in 1930 to 25,000 , and would rise to over 30,000 in the next three years .
9 Thomas Cook 's UK travel agency network had its best year ever last year and plans are under way to increase the current branch network of 340 by at least another 100 over the next two years .
10 And then there are two further posts , two five's over the next twelve months .
11 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 .
12 Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next twelve months .
13 Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in 1992 and expects to sell 3,000 Luna 2001s over the next 12 months .
14 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 .
15 He dominated an opening stand of 101 with Stewart and went on to add 53 and 73 for the next two wickets with Graeme Hick and Neil Fairbrother .
16 Hendry , winner of six titles this season , shrugged off the setback and won three of the next four frames for his first Irish final in three years .
17 Lancashire had a point lead over Durham after the morning foursomes 3–2 but after new county champion Greg Helsby had halved his opening singles , they lost three of the next four , Southport and Ainsdale 's England international Raife Hutt , losing his to Craig Kilgour of Ravensworth 3&2 .
18 Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings .
19 Five of the digits from the nine-digit key , two from the first five and three from the next four , e.g. for 987 654 321 :
20 Labour won the 1964 election and was in power for 11 of the next 15 years .
21 Engineering employment in the first half of nineteen ninety three is estimated to be a hundred and twenty thousand fewer than twelve months earlier and it is forecast to fall another forty five thousand in the next twelve months .
22 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 .
23 It is slashing its UK retailing workforce by 3,500 over the next five years , a staggering 20% of the 15,000 total .
24 ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station .
25 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 … ’
26 To tackle these and other problems , the water companies are investing £28 billion in the next nine years .
27 Fields is confident that Prabhakar , who now directs ARPA 's $300-million microelectronics technology office , can run an agency whose budget is expected to quadruple to $1.4 billion in the next four years .
28 My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years .
29 As part of the deal he may be forced to sell assets worth $2 billion within the next three years .
30 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 .
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