Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the next [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visitor arriving in Zurich for the first time will almost certainly do so with a preconceived idea of a feverishly busy city where austere-faced financiers wearing dark suits hurry past in search of the next billion dollars , where bankers huddle together in back rooms like a secret society , a place resembling a web from the centre of which threads reach out to manipulate the money markets of the world , and everything is subordinate to profit . |
| 2 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 3 | Across the Atlantic , the Indian hockey team was in its pomp , winning the hockey tournament at the Los Angeles Olympics , and dominated hockey for the best part of the next 40 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But in fact the Mort Homme , with its sinister name acquired from some long-forgotten tragedy of another age , was to be the centre of the most bitter , see-saw fighting for the best part of the next three months . |
| 6 | Could I just remind members of the board of the next two meetings which are at the bottom of the er a a agenda and were given to you previously of course . |
| 7 | In the course of the next two decades Oxford and Cambridge became involved in what one of the Cambridge extension lecturers described as an attempt to provide " University Education for the Whole Nation by an itinerant system connected with the Old Universities " . |
| 8 | His mood of self-satisfaction was far from justified in terms of social and economic realities , but even these were to be turned into personal triumphs for Franco in the course of the next two decades . |
| 9 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 10 | During the course of the next two years , Somerset 's government brought about a number of Protestant reforms , including the dissolution of the chantries and the introduction of an English Prayer Book and a new liturgy for the mass . |
| 11 | Clouds gathered again in the course of the next two days , but after an hour or two they would disperse . |
| 12 | Once the parents had been shown how to carry out the technique they became more confident in using it and over the course of the next two weeks Mary stopped physically attacking her sister . |
| 13 | But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years . |
| 14 | Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class . |
| 15 | And it was given new nourishment by a series of Hitler speeches in late 1940 and early 1941 which aimed to strengthen confidence in final victory and create the impression that the decisive strike to end the war — people still presumed that it would be against Britain — would take place in the course of the next twelve months . |
| 16 | The UK should aim to rejoin the ERM in the course of the next 18 months when the strength of sterling should reflect the underlying strength of the economy and not be solely the product of high interest rates . |
| 17 | As a result , in the course of the next six years all 30 polytechnics were officially designated and the binary system of education was consolidated . |
| 18 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 19 | ‘ I said to quite a few people immediately after the General Election that within the course of the next 12 months , I would be one of the most unpopular people in this country . |
| 20 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 21 | In the meantime the discussion will largely remain within the shareholder-centred conception of business enterprise , and during the course of the next seven chapters it will be considered whether in practice the mechanisms of shareholder control , particularly against a background of widely dispersed holdings , are adequate to promote satisfactory levels of corporate efficiency . |
| 22 | The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day . |
| 23 | In the course of the next three decades , however , he became a cult figure , though more for horror films with such titles as Swamp Women , Attack of the Crab Monsters and Bucket of Blood . |
| 24 | Skarsnik had other enemies to crush , and would launch huge attacks against Karak Azul , Barak Varr and throughout the Badlands over the course of the next three summers . |
| 25 | In the course of the next three years over 5 million small farmers moved from individual farms to larger settlements , often including several hundred families . |
| 26 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 27 | Over the course of the next three months six further papers will be published : |
| 28 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
| 29 | Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years . |
| 30 | Little of his work of the next three years is known , but from that time until 1814 he produced much of his best drawing in pencil and watercolours . |