Example sentences of "[prep] the next [adj] years [pron] " 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 her relatives reportedly tried to find a country that would receive her body for burial , but were turned away until they reached Peru .
12 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 .
13 For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 It was normal for a boy to start at 45 at age 14 , and for the next four years his pay went up a shilling a year .
17 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 .
18 A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris .
19 For the next 13 years he served in the Met .
20 In 1905 Hammerton was invited to join Harmsworth 's Amalgamated Press , then the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world , and for the next seventeen years his employer 's energetic and ‘ radium-like personality ’ , as described by Hammerton , provided him with the background to his life 's work .
21 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 . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth .
27 For the next two years his health remained stable although the hospital had told us he might have more mini-strokes .
28 For the next ten years their father was posted from one naval establishment to another , around most of the strategically retained vestiges of the British Empire , from Hong Kong to Aden , to Gibraltar , to Singapore and finally to Malta , and Alex and Victoria , rejoining the family during holidays , became seasoned travellers .
29 But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if
30 For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent .
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