Example sentences of "was [verb] over [art] next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 2 | What emerged over the first half of the century was a financial system which , if limited by comparison with what was to develop over the next two centuries , was capable of mobilising substantial funds and of providing most of the essential services needed by a diversifying economy growing both in output and in sophistication . |
| 3 | Broadly speaking the interest of the State in vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care , marks the beginning of its concern with wage-earning youth , which was to develop over the next twenty years with the formation of the Juvenile Organizations Committee in 1916 , the various measures to ameliorate juvenile unemployment between the wars , and the inauguration in 1939 of The ‘ Youth Service ’ , each of which was a response to economic and social pressures , and all of which refined and extended the image of youth . |
| 4 | With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation . |
| 5 | Its theme of ‘ the disintegration of African social life ’ pointed to a concept of applied anthropology — ‘ a dynamic science of man in the service of Africa ’ — which Smith was to advocate over the next two decades . |
| 6 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |