Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the next [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 2 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 3 | Neither then nor for the next four days . |
| 4 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 5 | Let us make sure that for the next two weeks he still can not prove . ’ |
| 6 | The success was so great or the rivalry of the wealthy families so keen that during the next four years three more opera-houses were opened : the Teatro dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo , the San Moisè , and the Teatro Novissimo . |
| 7 | The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted . |
| 8 | It was agreed that during the next 12 years his earnings would have been £21,000 per annum , which would have given him £7,500 after tax . |
| 9 | Although during the next three centuries the Serbs were victims of a struggle between Rome and Byzantium , the Eastern Church finally triumphed during the reign of Stephen Nemanja in the late twelfth century . |
| 10 | Market researchers predict that within the next two years the High Street will have changed beyond all recognition as customers ‘ go shopping ’ from their armchair . |
| 11 | A report by the Manpower Services Commission this summer said that within the next three years , industry ‘ does not predict any major shortages of electronics staff . ’ |
| 12 | We 've got clients , for example , where we are waiting for the sale of land to get our monies in , so it 's reasonable to expect that we 'll see that within the next three years . |
| 13 | The report 's most dramatic assumption is that within the next 20 years electricity can replace petrol for many of the region 's cars , buses and lorries . |
| 14 | Mr Vernon pointed out that in the next five years this programme will have cost some £20m , and that figure would need to be borne in mind when setting fund raising targets for the future . |
| 15 | WEN predict that in the next six months all soft paper manufacturers here will change their practices — labelling items according to their pulping and bleaching process and promoting ’ chlorine free ’ . |
| 16 | Versailles displayed an economic shortsightedness ; writing in 1921 R. H. Brand recognised that in the next 5 years reparations would not " be large enough very seriously to alleviate the great financial problems which … the nations of Western Europe must have solved " . " |
| 17 | That means that over the next 14 months new national vocational qualifications will be accredited and put in place at a rate of well over one a day . |
| 18 | The RYA says that over the next 10 years demand for new berths will reach 85,000 nationally on top of the present 190,000 . |
| 19 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
| 21 | I can give the hon. Gentleman and the House some comfort by saying that over the next two years things will change dramatically . |
| 22 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 23 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 24 | ‘ I think the public will be better protected if for the next two years and possibly afterwards you are on a regime of medication which will ensure you do n't do anything like this again , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 26 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
| 27 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 28 | The ‘ Tiger ’ convoy came within range of air attack on 8th. , and for the next four days most activity in the air tended to centre here . |
| 29 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 30 | It was normal for a boy to start at 45 at age 14 , and for the next four years his pay went up a shilling a year . |