Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to ride over the next big bore at Stonebench . ’ |
| 4 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 5 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 6 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 7 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |
| 8 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
| 9 | It has not shifted the old Labour image and habits towards the new kind of social-democratic space that has begun to emerge in some European countries , and which represents the only real alternative for the left that wants to govern in the next post-Maastricht decade . |
| 10 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 11 | Visix is currently recruiting for a UK subsidiary it plans to open in the next two months . |
| 12 | In a White Paper Defence Secretary Tom King says spending over the next 3 years will rise by only 1.2% and after that it could fall . |
| 13 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 14 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 15 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 16 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 17 | What I 'd like to do for the next twenty minutes of the er of the seminar is talk about client server today . |
| 18 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 19 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know what is going to happen in the next few weeks , but I know I 'm capable of getting right up there . ’ |
| 21 | I realize I 'm sitting tense , as if something 's going to happen in the next three minutes . |
| 22 | I think that something terrible is going to happen in the next twenty-four hours . |
| 23 | What do you want to do for the next two weeks ? |
| 24 | He had about another ten paces to go to the next parked car , within the wheelbase of which he would be safe from the laser-axles of the passing traffic . |
| 25 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 26 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 27 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 28 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 29 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 30 | LIZ McCOLGAN has agreed a £500,000 deal to run in the next three NutraSweet London marathons . |