Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the next " in BNC.

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1 She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours .
2 It is believed that the National Gallery has committed its entire purchase grant for the next three years towards the cost of the Holbein and , given the fact that purchase grants for national museums have been frozen since 1985 , other museums are similarly powerless both to acquire when the works come onto the market , and to match their export price when their licences are suspended .
3 Training after a main event should be much less dynamic and should concentrate on improving technique in preparation for the next competition .
4 This information seems to fit in well with the growing body of sporting opinion that good physical fitness training is intense , punctuated by good amounts of rest in preparation for the next effort .
5 She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure .
6 OVER THE NEXT NINE MONTHS Wolfgang stayed at home in Salzburg , learning arithmetic ( which he enjoyed ) , Latin , and Italian in preparation for the next trip .
7 I knocked her weight down an eighth of an ounce in preparation for the next flight , but the next day the weather was too bad for flying , so I ‘ fattened ’ her up again .
8 The main function of MPs is to support their leaders , to attack the other side and to score the maximum points with the electorate in preparation for the next general election .
9 3 The leading arm then withdraws back to the body in preparation for the next move .
10 In preparation for the next elections , Williams persuaded a number of local politicians and businessmen to join him in running for office on the P.N.M. ticket .
11 On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day .
12 When acceleration or deceleration is complete the transistor switch is opened and the capacitor can then recharge in preparation for the next speed change .
13 Corbett , ignoring Ranulf 's pleas and remonstrances , told them both to get a good night 's sleep in preparation for the next morning .
14 Suggestions , in preparation for the next meeting , for those procedures that we still have to review , the procedure owners are going to put the information to us in one of two ways , if it is a minor modification procedure small changes of wording things need to be uncontroversial , we will resite the procedure with red line and strike out in the way that Jenny procedures have been prepared and circulate before the meeting .
15 It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed .
16 The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed .
17 Many of the best women tennis players from home and abroad will be competing in Swindon for the next 7 days .
18 Do not lose interest and let the end of a sentence fade away as you scan your notes for the next remark .
19 Keep a detailed log of your activities during the next two weeks .
20 We shall examine the nature of these accounts during the next two chapters .
21 The present value of dividends on the shares in the index during the next six months is £1000 , and the riskless rate of interest for six months is 5% .
22 The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years .
23 Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise .
24 These depressions were usually connected with his job ; she guessed he was still irritated by his wasted trip to Glasgow and consequent lack of a story for the next day 's paper .
25 Small wonder that the estimates of global sea-level rise for the next 100 years are very tentative .
26 If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings .
27 He talks about seeing his publisher , and getting a better contract for the next book .
28 The departures from a spherically symmetrical gravitational field are so big that J 2 is large enough to have been measured very accurately , and for the same reason this is also the case for the next gravitational coefficient in the series , J 4 ( jay-four ) .
29 Chen also said that Taiwan would spend US$5,000 million on weapons programmes during the next fiscal year beginning in July .
30 Wages did not rise in proportion , and by the Spring of 1795 there was the extensive distress and threat of mass starvation which led , in May , to the infamous meeting of the magistrates at Speenhamland in Berkshire , an event which would have such an impact on poor-law provision for the next few decades .
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