Example sentences of "[art] next [adj] years [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 4 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 7 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 8 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 9 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 10 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 11 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 12 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 13 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 14 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 15 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 18 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |
| 19 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 20 | During the next five years he travelled –40,000 kilometres and visited 45 different countries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Over the next five years he tried both options . |
| 23 | Now a planning calendar 's , you 've got these planning calendars for this year and the next five years I think , or five years altogether , erm , and then you 've got some sheets called appointment details . |
| 24 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |
| 25 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 26 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 27 | During the next four years he wrote two substantial biographies which were highly acclaimed , those of his mentor Emrys ap Iwan , and Thomas Gee , the most influential publisher in Wales during the nineteenth century and a great friend and supporter of the young David Lloyd George ( later Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |
| 28 | For the next four years he had lived in his private hell , and his silence had condemned her to live in it with him . |
| 29 | During the next four years he travelled extensively in China , recording every facet of life at all levels of society , from paupers to princes . |
| 30 | 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 . |