Example sentences of "[prep] [num] and [prep] the next " in BNC.
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1 | So if you 're Afro-American , female , below the age of 12 and with the next Do The Right Thing in the back of your mind , call Universal and ask for Spike . |
2 | He returned to Johannesburg at the close of the Boer war in 1902 and during the next four years proved that ore deposits similar to those of the central Rand goldfield were also present in the east Rand . |
3 | She embarked on the column in 1981 and over the next 11 years became , if hardly the guardian of people 's secrets , nonetheless a gushing fount of comforting advice . |
4 | Sir Michael Edwardes was appointed to the task of rescuing the company in 1977 and in the next five years attempted to reduce excessive centralisation in the company and to improve efficiency , which involved many plant closures and redundancies . |
5 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
6 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |