Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next few [noun] i " in BNC.

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1 For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa .
2 For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand .
3 For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines .
4 For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office .
5 For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there .
6 For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences .
7 During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path .
8 During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia .
9 That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question .
10 During the next few days I went about my duties with propriety and correctness .
11 During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur .
12 It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan .
13 During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit .
14 In the next few sections I will look at the characteristics of LE as used by the black community , with respect to vocabulary , grammar and accent .
15 Unless there is news of a signing for us in the next few days I am seriously think of saying fuck off to Leeds .
16 In the next few months I studied hard with Mr Pocket , who was always a most kind and helpful teacher .
17 Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts .
18 Well , in the next few weeks I sang like a canary .
19 There was a lot of helpful feedback from these pieces so over the next few months I will try to provide a few more examples to expand this work .
20 Over the next few days I shall be looking at the Activity Book and Video Guide again in detail with our designer Phil Hall and then , with the stills from Michael Keefe , shall be able to send you a revised schedule .
21 Over the next few days I was in touch by letter and by phone with Eliot , and finally it was arranged , in a note dated 9 May , that I should lunch with him on Thursday 19 May , which , as he carefully specified , was Ascension Day .
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