Example sentences of "[prep] [det] for [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
2 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
3 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
4 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
5 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
6 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
7 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
8 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
9 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
10 | Results for the current year were likely to show little or no improvement over those for the first six months . |