Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] over the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision . |
| 2 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 3 | She described how over the next 24 hours her mother 's mood swung from the depths of depression to coping well . |
| 4 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
| 5 | Blood glucose concentration was held at 5 mmol/l for 40 minutes by simultaneous infusion of 20% glucose ( Baxter Health Care , Thetford , Norfolk ) and then reduced stepwise over the next 220 minutes to a low of 2 mmol/l ; then the concentration was restored to 5 mmol/l and held there until 260 minutes . |
| 6 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 7 | It was introduced in embryonic form for all children in 1976 , and child tax allowances disappeared altogether over the next two years . |
| 8 | Dinah grew physically over the next few years . |
| 9 | For many there was a conviction that the post-war world must be made a better place , a view that recurred regularly over the next twenty years . |
| 10 | As our study has also shown that most subjects who were seropositive in 1969 remained so over the next 21 years , it is probable that the high prevalence of H pylori antibodies seen in elderly subjects is at least in part a reflection of greater exposure to the infection in earlier years . |