Of the next year vs Of next year

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Of the next year' is used when referring to a specific year that follows the current one, while 'of next year' is used in a more general sense to talk about events or plans happening in the upcoming year.

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Of the next year

This phrase is correct and commonly used when referring to a specific year that follows the current one.

This phrase is used when talking about events, plans, or predictions that will happen in the specific year that comes after the current one. It provides a clear reference to a particular future year.

Examples:

The budget for the project will be allocated in the first quarter of the next year.
She plans to travel to Europe in the summer of the next year.
The company expects to launch its new product by the end of the next year.

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The aim of publication in the previous year is to prevent a rush of applications at the beginning of the next year, with its attendant delays.
In addition, there has been an accounting delay in 2004 for the CHU Saint-Pierre so that its part of the special subsidy was only recorded in the accounts of the next year.
Now, over the course of the next year,
I would like to highlight four priorities for the security and defence policy which we should follow up over the course of the next year.
We have to implement the European Citizens' Initiative over the course of the next year.
Work on this is at a very advanced stage and I hope that a political decision can be taken in the course of the next year.
The first of these was that the extension should be a one-off event, effective only until the end of the next year.
whereas 24 Member States have completed their parliamentary procedures for the approval of the Lisbon Treaty and whereas there are important electoral and political dates in the course of the next year,
Now, over the course of the next year,
We see reports that some countries which claimed a year ago to be BSE-free, now anticipate up 500 cases in the course of the next year.
Preparations for the programming of the next multiannual indicative programme are about to start and they will take place in the course of the next year.
You see, we're going to launch more than 100 of these satellites like these over the course of the next year.
The result of this situation is that the same teachers very often work at the same school on fixed-term contracts of one school year, are released and then re-recruited at the beginning of the next year.

Alternatives:

of the following year
of the upcoming year
of the succeeding year

Of next year

This phrase is correct and commonly used in a more general sense to refer to events or plans happening in the upcoming year.

This phrase is used when discussing events, plans, or predictions that are expected to occur in the year immediately following the current one. It is a more general way of referring to the future year without specifying a particular year.