Example sentences of "[prep] this for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 2 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 4 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
| 5 | They forgot that mainframe developers have worked on this for the last 20 years . ’ |
| 6 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |