Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for the next [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 2 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 3 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend always speaks out powerfully for Basildon : he has done so for the past eight years , and I have no doubt that he will do so for the next eight . |
| 5 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 6 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 7 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 8 | His descendants were to live here for the next 120 years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 10 | Also in that cast was a young John Robertson Hare [ q.v. ] , and the team of Walls , Hare , and Lynn was thus created , one which was to stay together for the next eleven years . |
| 11 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 12 | We did so for the next three years . |
| 13 | From about 1750 , population increased yearly for the next 226 years ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 14 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 16 | It means I can now play solidly for the next 18 months knowing that tennis is not the be-all and end-all . ’ |
| 17 | The pal then puts his phone receiver to the radio and Mike listens in for the next 90 minutes — cost £6.75 . |
| 18 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 19 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 20 | They had enough food and wine , and stayed there for the next five days . |