Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [prep] [art] next few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will sell for £35,000 with basic instruments and the first should arrive in the next few weeks . |
| 2 | Cleo realised she was frightened , but if there was the slightest possibility she could catch sight of Inky 's shade , she was prepared to risk whatever might happen over the next few hours . |
| 3 | Something might happen within the next few days . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't know , did she , what might happen in the next few days ? |
| 5 | A controlling block of the club 's shares is going back on the market and a new owner could emerge in the next few weeks . |
| 6 | Now however , they will be prepared to let the tribunal decide if they sign a player out of contract — and that could happen within the next few weeks . |
| 7 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates ' threats to make life miserable for WABI by bringing out competitive products of his own ( UX No 432 ) , are believed to involve Bristol and a Microsoft license to Wind/U which could happen in the next few weeks , though nothing has been signed . |
| 8 | Cyclone now have approval to rebuild and service the aircraft and Bill Sherlock is strongly optimistic that full-scale production could resume within the next few months . |
| 9 | It is possible that a substantial increase in demand for teacher education on language could develop in the next few years . |
| 10 | there 's been no records or even wins for the England cricket team this summer … but all that could change over the next few weeks as the Womens Cricket World Cup gets underway … its being played in this country … the official opening is in London tomorrow … and England have a chance of winning … in the team are two Oxfordshire girls |
| 11 | MORE than 11,000 civil service jobs in Scotland are under threat and thousands more could go over the next few years , the Civil and Public Services Association leader , Barry Reamsbottom , will state at a rally tomorrow . |
| 12 | And last night the council gave its approval , building work could start within the next few months . |
| 13 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 14 | Over the weekend , when it still seemed possible that Baldwin would resign in the next few days , Sydney Arnold and Lees Smith advised MacDonald not to take office , on the grounds that a Labour Government would be bound to fail and that the party would then be ‘ overwhelmed ’ . |
| 15 | And certainly , trade book publishing did not do at all badly in nineteen ninety one in a recessionary environment and erm , there are , as Frank has mentioned particularly within Penguin , quite a lot of internal restructuring has gone on and one would hope that margins would improve over the next few years as a result of that . |
| 16 | As we shall see in the next few chapters , changes in values and attitudes will cause changes in the kinds of products that people buy . |
| 17 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 18 | Admission to a psychiatric unit was not thought necessary because she was able to make realistic plans concerning how she would cope during the next few days , and support was available from her children . |
| 19 | She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him . |
| 20 | Busacher rather thought they would rub through the next few days without an open revolt from Gesner . |
| 21 | It 's understood the jobs will disappear over the next few months as part of a slimming down exercise . |
| 22 | , The Chemical Industries Association in the UK has predicted that environmental spending by its member companies will double within the next few years , despite an overall drop in capital spending of 14 per cent in 1991-93 , compared with 1988-90 . |
| 23 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
| 24 | Both wines are currently from the 1988 vintage and will improve over the next few years . |
| 25 | In general , it seems likely that what will emerge over the next few decades will be two parallel systems : one with large offshore windmills , wave power generators and tidal barrages providing electricity for the grid ; the other more decentralised , with solar and biomas providing heat on a small scale local basis , coupled with small windmills , water mills and turbines in rivers and streams providing electricity in certain mainly rural areas . |
| 26 | Count Tolstoy is refusing to back down and says new evidence will emerge in the next few days which will vindicate him . |
| 27 | DETAILED design work will begin in the next few weeks on an Israeli hydroelectric scheme that will shift 1.6 billion cubic metres of water per year from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea . |
| 28 | A general election last Thursday would have settled once and for all the political policies that the country will follow for the next few years . |
| 29 | Mr Strang said the winning of the contract was a tribute to the engineering capability at Ferranti , adding : ‘ The long term benefit is probably even greater than the 100 jobs it will sustain over the next few years . ’ |
| 30 | The Government will decide over the next few weeks whether to penalize Gloucestershire for overspending . |