Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next [adj] years [pers pn] " 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 thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 7 | For the next twenty-six years it languished at the back of Bispham Depot , until driven under its own power to the Works in February 1960 for renovation . |
| 8 | Violet Needham was by then sixty-three , but for the next eighteen years she produced on average a book a year ; not until she was eighty-one did her last book , The Sword of St Cyprian , have to be turned down because her powers were failing . |
| 9 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For the next thirteen years they offered no really serious opposition to government policies : but their refusal in 1787 to accept proposals for important new taxes and tax reforms was a crucial step in the destruction of the old regime in France . |
| 16 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 17 | For the next 13 years he served in the Met . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 20 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
| 21 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 24 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 25 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 26 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 29 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
| 30 | 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 . |