Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next few [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marilla agreed , and for the next few days Anne planned what she would put in her cake . |
| 2 | The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance . |
| 3 | For the next few days Shelley did n't catch even a glimpse of her chief . |
| 4 | For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories . |
| 5 | For the next few days Ajdabiya was extremely unsettled , and men showed all the conventional signs of being in crisis , and on the verge of further violent action . |
| 6 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 7 | In the Balkans it meant that for the next few years Bulgaria under Stambouloff would look to Austria-Hungary ( and even , a little , to Turkey ) , for fear of Russia . |
| 8 | During the next few decades chlorine is expected to increase then decrease , while CO 2 is expected to increase continuously . |
| 9 | During the next few months Mickie spent much of his time in charge of flight tests on the development of the W-3 at Hanworth and the type testing in Glasgow of the four-cylinder , in-line , engine , later known as the Pixie . |
| 10 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 11 | During the next few days Stevie was to find himself something of a cult figure . |
| 12 | During the next few years Miloš gradually increased his influence within the administration of the pashalik , using the considerable wealth at his disposal to bribe Turkish officials . |
| 13 | During the next few years children are likely to be engaging in more sustained projects as part of their learning of mathematics . |
| 14 | The manuscript , however , was not entirely ready for publication , " and during the next few weeks Nietzsche submitted it to a final revision . |
| 15 | During the next few weeks Mr Utterson spent many hours in the narrow street where Enfield had seen Hyde . |
| 16 | During the next few weeks Bourke and Blake moved to several different apartments in London owned by friends who Bourke claimed were members of CND and named as Michael Reynolds and Pat Porter . |
| 17 | It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested . |
| 18 | The community was to be governed according to the principle of ‘ Pantisocracy ’ — a word invented by Coleridge meaning ‘ equal rule by all ’ — and in the course of the next few months Pantisocracy in its broad details was discussed and argued into existence . |
| 19 | But within the next few weeks labourers will start digging the foundations for a plant at Gwithian , on Cornwall 's northern shore , which will produce about 500 tonnes of tin per year . |
| 20 | In the next few days Creggan began to learn about the Zoo in which he was now imprisoned . |
| 21 | In the next few days Mary spent almost all her time in the gardens . |
| 22 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 23 | In the next few months Bathsheba noticed miserably that Gabriel communicated with her as little as possible , and then only by messenger . |
| 24 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 25 | In the next few weeks Karen and Drew spent a lot of time together . |
| 26 | In the next few weeks Anne and Marilla worked hard together on the farm and in the house . |
| 27 | In the next few weeks advertisements will appear for a chief executive who , if all goes to plan , will have a year to run themselves in and have a real say in building the new institution . |
| 28 | To play a part in the problems of geology over the next few decades geomorphologists must forget their trivial catchments and see mega forests instead of trees … |
| 29 | Over the next few decades community life-style in Britain is likely to become increasingly diverse . |
| 30 | Over the next few minutes Wickham learned that MacQuillan had not wanted to leave Barron in control anywhere , that Maureen and Barron had been and still were jockeying for position and that Maureen had enlisted Hunter-Blair 's support . |