Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 2 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 4 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 5 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 6 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 7 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 8 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 10 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 12 | And you know it , it 's amazing how since my involvement for the last two years in Great Britain , all the problems that you have with critical illness , all the problems . |
| 13 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 14 | My target for the first 6 games was 10 points . |
| 15 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 16 | The CDA 's share of the vote , at 32.7 per cent , although marginally up on its result for the last municipal elections in 1986 [ see p. 34309 ] , compared aversely with 35.3 per cent in the September 1989 general election [ see p. 36900 ] . |
| 17 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 18 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 19 | The Gulamalis received their rent for the first three months , then nothing for four months , and were told the computer was broken , the accounts were being moved , the cheque was in the post , and so on . |
| 20 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 21 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 22 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |
| 23 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 24 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 25 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 26 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 27 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 28 | ARSENAL 'S rent-a-crowd will assist the team in their battle for the first Premier League title . |
| 29 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 30 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |