Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] over the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 2 | The company announced they had secured a Ministry of Defence contract to deliver nearly 2,000 diesel engined Luton built Novas and almost 800 Ellesmere Port-built diesel 1.7 Astra Estates over the next three years . |
| 3 | THE UNITED STATES ' navy is under heavy fire for its plan to dispose of 100 or more of its old nuclear submarines off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts over the next 20 or so years . |
| 4 | The initiative has been allocated £150,000 from ESRC funds over the next three years . |
| 5 | DEC is to purchase $8m of Auspex systems over the next 12 months to support its networked Unix workstations . |