Example sentences of "[prep] the next five " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't stop her hoping , waiting and hoping , for the next five years , he wrote , wasting her life when it was obvious he had no intention of going through with it . |
| 2 | Money seems little object , and one German satellite station has spent $25 million buying the rights to ATP 's new tennis tour for the next five years . |
| 3 | There Rowicki created the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra , building it from scratch and directing it for the next five years . |
| 4 | The film was a success but , for the next five years , Brunel could secure no further directing opportunities and passed his time writing stories , editing imported films and producing home movies . |
| 5 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 6 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 8 | So , a yearly 10 per cent rise in fares for the next five years . |
| 9 | He is stuck with the same rigid pricing arrangements for the next five years . |
| 10 | For the next five years , until his death in 1953 , he ground out anodyne pieces . |
| 11 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 12 | But Labour ‘ won ’ on a minority vote and governed for the next five years . |
| 13 | STUART SURRIDGE , who died aged 74 at his home in Wimbledon on Monday , wrote in his diary when appointed captain of Surrey in 1952 that the county would be champions for the next five years . |
| 14 | E W Swanton writes : Alec Bedser has recorded how , before W S Surridge started his first season as captain , he made this entry in his diary : ‘ Surrey will be champions for the next five years . ’ |
| 15 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 16 | Up to £40 million per year , for the next five years , has been earmarked for projects that should keep Britain up with research for the next generation of computer systems . |
| 17 | This plan identifies exactly where the council is planning developments and has to show existing free land available for the next five years . |
| 18 | For the next five minutes , its full beam still on , the car kept behind them , even when the road widened enough to make passing possible . |
| 19 | Now make the changes to your success image and to your plan for the next five years . |
| 20 | Now that you have a goal and some objectives for the next five years , let's concentrate on some more specific objectives for the next year . |
| 21 | Give all the tax relief on mortgage interest for the next five years as a lump sum in the 1993–94 tax year , he says , to ‘ boost consumer confidence ’ . |
| 22 | If anything , he 'll need calming down — and the best way Taylor could achieve that would be to tell him , whatever happens against Turkey tonight , that he 'll be in the team for the next five games at least . |
| 23 | There was a period of incredibly intense excitement which , I think , probably sustained me for the next five or ten years . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 25 | For the next five minutes all three of them talked about dreams . |
| 26 | This done , for the next five hours Spencer followed the Islander 's tail lights . |
| 27 | Unix , House believes , will dominate the open systems market for the next five years . |
| 28 | It was against this background that WACC 's Central Committee considered WACC 's priorities for the next five years . |
| 29 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
| 30 | London 's rate of population loss in the 1970s was virtually the same as the average for the next five cities ( Birmingham , Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , and Newcastle ) , so the relative gap between them changed little . |