Example sentences of "to [num] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some traders expect it to fall to 3,100 within the next few weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
| 5 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Morocco and Tunisia are to be hosts to two of the next sessions of the multilateral Middle East peace talks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This number is expected to grow to 4000 over the next five years . |