Example sentences of "over the next few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 2 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 3 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
| 4 | Howard Davies , the commission 's controller , says that , as schools are given more financial and managerial independence over the next few years , authorities should monitor quality on behalf of ratepayers and parents , rather than pretending that all their schools are equally good . |
| 5 | In her second album , which takes a sensibly modest manifesto for its title , the mix is as before ; you will hear all the tracks over the next few months if you follow the charts . |
| 6 | Emergency services could face additional problems over the next few days - the first weekend that ambulance officers have been involved in the action . |
| 7 | The appointment of other leading journalists will be announced over the next few weeks . |
| 8 | Scientists had thought weather patterns would reduce the size of the hole over the next few years . |
| 9 | Immigration officials will be conducting interviews over the next few days . |
| 10 | Mr Cohen said there was ‘ great scope for building up a British-based group hand tools business over the next few years . ’ |
| 11 | It would not surprise us to see something like this over the next few months . ’ |
| 12 | Over the next few months it is likely that the Home Office will order out hundreds more of the 3,500 Kurds who arrived in May and June and now live in north London . |
| 13 | Chrysler 's aim is to increase European sales to 100,000 a year over the next few years — a plan almost certain to involve right-hand drive vehicles for the UK . |
| 14 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 15 | As the Western and Eastern alliances fade — as now looks increasingly likely over the next few years — the European Community will become the dominant focus for European foreign policy and security . |
| 16 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 17 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 18 | Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense . |
| 19 | While Mr Parkinson will be anxious over the next few days to emphasise the benefits of BR 's £3 billion investment programme , it is clear passengers will be paying increasingly more towards new rolling stock and equipment . |
| 20 | Of all the risks that face the world economy over the next few months , the most easily avoidable is this threat of trade war . |
| 21 | Over the next few years , all farm support was phased out . |
| 22 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
| 23 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
| 24 | The industry did not shriek too loudly : the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy . |
| 25 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 26 | The raid netted him £500 million and over the next few weeks he made his strategy clear . |
| 27 | Over the next few days the press was busy reporting doubts about the political wisdom of abolishing SERPS among ‘ ministers and Conservative MPs ’ while the Opposition tabled a censure motion calling on the Government to withdraw its plans to abolish SERPS and its ‘ callous dismantling of the Welfare State ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ In the meantime you are free to do whatever you wish to do over the next few weeks . |
| 29 | As you say , I wo n't be around much over the next few weeks anyway . ’ |
| 30 | I think there will be great developments over the next few years . |