Example sentences of "[verb] the next ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 2 | Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 4 | Spent the next ten minutes itemising all aforesaid so-and-so 's deficiencies . |
| 5 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 6 | He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties . |
| 7 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 8 | It was a task which occupied the next ten months . |
| 9 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 10 | She spends the next ten years taking in washing , slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it . |
| 11 | No one can predict what will make news as we enter the next ten years of Central , but as long as the talent survives , we 're promised entertainment well worth watching . |