Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 2 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 3 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had my greatest moments here on my birthday for the last 20 years and I do n't intend to stop now . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | My target for the first 6 games was 10 points . |
| 11 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She 's been visiting the Compton family who have been without their car for the last two months . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Its owner for the last 17 years , Keith Schellenberg , has been forced to put it on the market as part of a divorce settlement , agreed after more than ten years of legal wranglings . |
| 22 | The question is whether England reached their peak for the first 45 minutes of Hamilton or whether they have the resources of skill and spirit to play even better seven days later at Pukekohe . |
| 23 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 24 | With Stamm acting as chief engineer , the San Jose , California start-up has been readying its line for the last two years financed by a $3.5m first-round investment from venture capitalists Institutional Venture Partners , Matrix Partners and Menlo Ventures . |
| 25 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 26 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 27 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
| 28 | A woman has the right to stop work until her child is three and gets a third of her salary for the first 18 months . |
| 29 | Eddie 's death had been a nightmare that had haunted her family for the last ten years . |
| 30 | HER husband , Tom , has slept by her bedside for the last three months . |