Example sentences of "it [prep] the next [num] " in BNC.
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1 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
2 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
3 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
4 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
5 | Well , can I propose we try it for the next three meetings , and |
6 | If the success of Drury 's frame-up was breathtaking in its audacity , the failure of the Appeal Court to expose it during the next ten years was no less so in its crassness . |
7 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
8 | In response , the largest bird importer in the US , A.A. Pare , has argued that " What we 're doing is salvaging the birds … if they stay in the jungle , they 're not going to have it in the next five years … |
9 | In other words , if you could n't get it in the next three months , you could forget about it ! |
10 | ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him . |
11 | The owner says he will sell at that price , but only if Fred collects the car and pays for it within the next 2 hours . |
12 | However , USL believes that HP will adopt it within the next three or four months . |
13 | But two years of severe drought in the region have prompted suggestions to give the project a higher priority and to build it over the next two years rather than the next 14 , as originally planned . |
14 | We travelled thousands of miles in it over the next two years . |
15 | Nor was there any reason to believe they would get it over the next thirty years , either . |
16 | Having finally admitted that the English drift-netting is damaging to Scotland 's rivers and needs to be phased out , the Government is proposing to accomplish it over the next 30 years . |