Example sentences of "next three [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next three chapters we shall look at deserted villages , where recent studies began , and surviving villages , which are the subject of renewed and vigorous interest . |
| 2 | In the next three chapters we look more closely at the texture of essay-writing . |
| 3 | For some part of the next three decades he was chaplain in London to Denzil , first Baron Holles of Ifield ( whose will he witnessed in 1670 ) , and to Sir John Maynard [ qq.v. ] , both parliamentarian veterans . |
| 4 | He was defiant yesterday , saying : ‘ If we win the next three matches we could still go through and we will have a much stronger side . |
| 5 | For the next three minutes they experienced sensations that only requited sexual lust can bring . |
| 6 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 7 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 8 | Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain 's transport infrastructure in our history . |
| 9 | Over the next three years we shall continue to upgrade the technology at our refineries to increase the production of motor fuels . |
| 10 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 11 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 12 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 13 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 14 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 15 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 16 | For the next three nights they 'll have to keep their heads under pillow because it 's likely to get noisier before it eases off . |
| 17 | Use the stand alone system so it gets the date that we 're going to collect it , it can say all the things that we 've said , it 's , you know , we wrote to you some time ago and , and er we , we did n't get the money if you do n't , as you said , if you do n't send us this money we 're gon na sounds like a threat does n't it , if you do n't send this money within the next three months we 'll automatically collect it together with your regular premium due on the date |
| 18 | Fill in and return the payment instruction overleaf and for the next three months you 'll receive the New Internationalist magazine absolutely free and with no obligation , plus your gifts . |
| 19 | Over the next three days we 'll be looking at what more tax would mean … |
| 20 | They were Miss was the teacher and the , the next three classes I would say with great pleasure , and then we came to one of the old ones which er they were more severe , probably she used the tawse a lot . |