Example sentences of "to [adj] [prep] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 2 | The irony is , however , that the economic crisis which might clinch their switch to Labour at the next election — with continuing balance-of-payments problems , punishing interest rates , a sinking pound , inflation and recession — would by definition preclude the heavy public investment required to implement the Kinnock programme . |
| 3 | When there is more than one stressed syllable in the head there is usually a slight change in pitch from the level of one stressed syllable to that of the next , the change being in the direction of the beginning pitch of the tone on the tonic syllable . |
| 4 | According to a study by Italy 's joint chiefs of staff , a manpower shortage may lead to the army being cut by up to half over the next 20 years . |
| 5 | The government meets three quarters of the costs of section eleven projects , but that 's being cut to half over the next two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
| 9 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They will want to be on committees and subcommittees where they can advance the interests of both their sponsors — those who have contributed to the costs of their , usually expensive , election campaigns and , it is hoped , will contribute to those of the next as well — and their constituents ; to some extent , these will be the same . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was ranked 18th by the WBC in mid-summer , but promoter Barry Hearn said he would have moved up to ninth on the next list and so qualified for the fight . |
| 16 | Morocco and Tunisia are to be hosts to two of the next sessions of the multilateral Middle East peace talks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This number is expected to grow to 4000 over the next five years . |