Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] for the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years . |
| 2 | This was in excess of 10% for the first few months and was over 20% in some parts of Wales . |
| 3 | Keyworth said then that anti-missile lasers are the stuff of fantasy for the next few decades . |
| 4 | He had quite enjoyed that kind of jealousy for the first few months of their marriage . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , you 'll have no shortage of iron for the next few weeks ! |
| 6 | She hoped that Anna would keep off the subject of Luke for the next few hours . |
| 7 | A sense of adventure remained with Sara for the next few days , a sense of adventure tempered with trepidation , so that she had a sensation of flying high . |
| 8 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 9 | The Relieving Officer for East Greenwich , however , favoured giving relief to widows for the first few weeks after their husband 's death , but after that he believed some of the children should be taken into the workhouse , because he considered that an able-bodied widow should work . |
| 10 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 11 | She 'd lived without carpets for the first few weeks and it had been nearly a year before she 'd been able to ditch her old and undersized curtains . |
| 12 | Widespread ‘ light nights ’ were observed over Eurasia for the first few nights after the Tunguska event . |
| 13 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 14 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |