Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] for the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been really getting me down for the last four seasons — I 've been running disgustingly .
2 And the the policy now with is that this will ta now take place I know that there 's been somebody here for the last three years , but this will now take place every two years .
3 Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either .
4 I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't
5 Francis has aggravated an old groin problem in training , and said : ‘ You can count me out for the next two weeks . ’
6 I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years !
7 They manhandled her out of the vehicle and through the front doors , down the corridor and into the small , windowless and empty room that had become her home for the last nine hours .
8 Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant .
9 ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’
10 Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford .
11 Besides even if they did n't win it again for the next two million years we 'd never hear the end of it .
12 But one artist is so entranced by their beauty that he 's painted nothing else for the last six years .
13 That settled , I booked myself in for the first two weeks of August , five months after my operation .
14 He 's painted them continually for the last 6 years .
15 We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us .
16 Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years .
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