Example sentences of "but [prep] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du n no I , there 's a friend of mine and I 'm selling it in the pa have to advertise in the paper as well so that money 's going to it , I 've made , I 'm having a word with the bank manager for business facilities and then opening an account with him at the bank to er basically get some extra , a business account going which I do n't touch , er I need to get credit facilities done on the bank , accounts and stuff , dad 's gon na look through it completely with me and work everything out , but for the next six , seven weeks I 'll be too busy with the school work to really concentrate on it , cos exams start at seven weeks time now |
| 2 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 3 | But for the next two decades , as the volume of junk outstanding rose to $15 billion in 1980 and then $201 billion in 1989 , the default rate stayed low . |
| 4 | For Mrs Thatcher , at loggerheads with many of her own party over European issues , this summit was crucial , as it set the tone for debates leading up to 1992 — not only for European unification but for the next British election in which Europe will be a deciding factor . |
| 5 | But for the next twenty-four hours you 've got to come out of sight . ’ |
| 6 | But for the next three to four years at least managers will have to rely more on their judgment than on hard data in deciding what to charge for their services . |
| 7 | Anway , for the Man C. game membership cards are n't needed , but for the next 2 away games they are . |
| 8 | Between 1541 and 1570 the labourers recorded in the Myddle parish register formed only 7·1 per cent of adult males , but during the next thirty years the proportion rose to 23·4 per cent . |
| 9 | The immediate crisis passed , but during the next six years the monarchy 's problems if anything intensified , with military humiliation in Morocco and social unrest raging in the emerging anarchist strongholds of urban Catalonia and rural Andalusia : all this against a background of chronic governmental instability . |
| 10 | So there could be a number of chartered engineer vacancies come up , during those four to eight years , but during the next four years , hopefully , we will be able to recruit one female chartered engineer . |
| 11 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 12 | These etchings were produced with a detailed traditional technique , but during the next twenty years his style altered radically to one that verged into the art nouveau school . |
| 13 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 14 | But during the next few decades , nitrates and minerals in the Andes , wheat and beef in Argentina , and coffee in Brazil were to draw the railways outwards . |
| 15 | The acuteness of the goods famine must certainly be alleviated and not in some remote future but during the next few years . |
| 16 | But in the next six frames he aggregated only 51 points . |
| 17 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 18 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 19 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 20 | They wo n't say exactly which location , but in the next three weeks , 100 men between 16 and 60 who live there will be asked for a blood sample . |
| 21 | But in the next few years , these areas were practically drained of their promising material . |
| 22 | I would welcome a debate , but in the next few weeks many issues have to be fitted into the timetable , not least progress on Government legislation . |
| 23 | But within the next few weeks labourers will start digging the foundations for a plant at Gwithian , on Cornwall 's northern shore , which will produce about 500 tonnes of tin per year . |
| 24 | A granite rock was carried up the mountain but over the next 120 years parts of the inscription did get broken away ; the climate at 2,700m can be very severe . |
| 25 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 26 | Harris Corp 's current mix of home-grown to purchased products is around 80:20 but over the next three to five years , O'Donnell expects this ratio to be reversed . |
| 27 | The FT-SE 100 Index shed around 4 points at 2717.9 at the close but over the next few weeks all eyes will be on the pound . |
| 28 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |