Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next [adj] hundred [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concept of squares , and more particularly terraced houses , was to dominate urban planning for the next two hundred years . |
| 2 | The Dwarfs concentrate on fortification and consolidation , so few records are made of Orc activity for the next few hundred years . |
| 3 | This is not simply a matter of becoming uncomfortably aware that the rapid increase of world population and accelerated industrialization pose a serious threat to the environment both by the massive consumption of finite material resources and by the emission of man-made heat and chemicals into the atmosphere ; a situation dramatically portrayed in a report by the Club of Rome ( Meadows et al. , 1972 ) , subsequently much criticized but now taken more seriously again , which concluded that : ‘ If the present growth trends in world population , industrialization , pollution , food production , and resource depletion continue unchanged , the limits to growth on this planet will be reached some time within the next one hundred years . ’ |
| 4 | The driver relies on his navigator 's skill at ‘ reading the road ’ — what 's next in the way of bends , cross-roads , bridges , T-junctions and so on , and how the road curves in the next few hundred yards . |
| 5 | Over the next two hundred yards she slowed down again , her misery and inertia crowding back upon her , her loneliness embracing her . |
| 6 | Over the next two hundred years the issue of notes , i.e. paper money , was gradually taken over by the Bank of England which maintained an adequate gold stock to back the note issue . |
| 7 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 8 | Over the next few hundred years , Tewkesbury remained a busy commercial centre , often ranked only second to Gloucester . |
| 9 | Somewhere , somehow , the Dwarfs and the humans began a relationship that was to prove mutually beneficial over the next few hundred years . |
| 10 | Over the next few hundred years there are to be two Emperors , the elected Emperor and the reigning Count of Talabecland . |
| 11 | After they died , many kung fu systems were developed by their students , and over the next few hundred years more branches of these styles , barely recognizable from the original forms , came into being . |
| 12 | But Athens gave the Games to the world , and we 're looking at the next one hundred years and if the I O C wants to do something special with Athens in ‘ 96 and if Athens wants to do it , we assure them that Atlanta will support that effort one hundred per cent . |