Example sentences of "[noun] of the next [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These will be the main subjects of the next two chapters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | New Internationalist Freepost Mitcham CR4 9AR ( No stamp needed ) Yes Please send me , without obligation , my free copies of the next three issues of the New Internationalist plus the world map and book token . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | though they might be instrumental in reducing the level of food imports in the course of the next five to ten years , they will increase Nigerian dependency on foreign-manufactured commodities and know-how … imports like fertilizers , pesticides and agricultural machinery . |
| 10 | If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Clouds gathered again in the course of the next two days , but after an hour or two they would disperse . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There in the course of the next hundred and fifty years rapid progress was made in classifying the properties of the variety of metals included in the group . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The brine shrimps will grow during the course of the next 5 to 6 weeks , becoming up to 1 cm long . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |