Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 2 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 3 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 4 | For the next fifteen years he combined his duties as missioner with honourary service to the BDA as part-time Secretary/treasurer before becoming full-time General Secretary in 1966 and one of the Association 's most influential figures for the next fourteen years . |
| 5 | For the next five years he remained the king 's captive , and only in December 1327 , a year after the old reign had ended in a revolution , did Edward III order his release and the return of his lands . |
| 6 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 7 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 8 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 9 | For the next four years he was symptom free only while on elemental diet despite at least 12 week trials of prednisolone , azathioprine , and methotrexate . |
| 10 | For the next 13 years he served in the Met . |
| 11 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 12 | For the next two years he was a pupil under ( Sir ) Henry Fowler [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway at its Derby works . |
| 13 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 14 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 15 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 16 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 17 | Noel 's colleagues all wish him well and the very best of health in his retirement , which fortunately is only partial since for the next few years he remains with us as Research Professor in German . |
| 18 | For the next twenty-five years he held a series of appointments as minister : St Thomas 's Square , Hackney ( 1880–5 ) ; Cheetham Hill Congregational church , Manchester ( 1885–8 ) ; Clarendon Park , Leicester ( 1888–94 ) ; and Emmanuel church , Cambridge ( 1894–1901 ) . |
| 19 | For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts . |
| 20 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 21 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 22 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 23 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 24 | During the next four years he travelled extensively in China , recording every facet of life at all levels of society , from paupers to princes . |
| 25 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 26 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 27 | During the next five years he travelled –40,000 kilometres and visited 45 different countries . |
| 28 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 29 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 30 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |