Example sentences of "[noun] and for the next [num] " in BNC.

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1 The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets .
2 Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools .
3 Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions .
4 A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis .
5 Nick Clark dips into the Popperfoto archive in ’ Snapshots of History ’ beginning tomorrow night and for the next 3 nights on Central News .
6 In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers .
7 She opened a rejuvenation clinic and for the next 30 years many thousands of people flocked to receive what became the most famous , or perhaps , notorious , ‘ rejuvenatory ’ treatment of the century .
8 That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it .
9 They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation .
10 Sixteen patients with PSS had : ( a ) oesophageal manometry and endoscopy ; ( b ) acid perfusion of the oesophagus with simultaneous measurement of intraoesophageal pH during perfusion and for the next 10 minutes ; ( c ) 22 hour monitoring of intraoesophageal pH ; and ( d ) an evaluation of reflux symptoms during and after perfusion and during overnight pH monitoring .
11 Intraoesophageal pH , and the intensity and duration of symptoms ( heartburn , acid regurgitation ) were recorded during infusions and for the next 10 minutes .
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