Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next [adj] [noun pl] [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 | From there Tony went 3 , 2 , 3 , and for the next eight holes he was 1-over-3s . |
7 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
11 | For the next five minutes he pounded frustratingly at the seal lining , the task not made any easier by the rhythmic rocking of the train as it sped through the rain . |
12 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
15 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
16 | For the next four weeks you will need to follow the diet outlined as closely as you possibly can . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | When she refused , Seth fought for the wheel , she won , and for the next fifty miles he fumed . |
24 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
25 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
26 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
27 | For the next 13 years he served in the Met . |
28 | 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 . ’ |
29 | For the next two chapters we are going to look at the special role that money plays in the economy . |
30 | For the next two decades he made a sort of living finding bits and pieces of editing and translation work . |