Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] next [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 2 | This advice I took seriously ; and Myra and I spent the next ten years mostly in Britain . |
| 3 | She spends the next ten years taking in washing , slaving away to pay back the money they borrowed to replace it . |
| 4 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |
| 5 | These days , more and more people are asking me , ‘ Mr Punch , how can we survive the next few years ? ’ |
| 6 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 7 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The same tenacious vanity which enabled him to survive the next nine years of penury wrecked his chances of succeeding as a writer . |
| 10 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 11 | He spent the next five years in exile at the court of the Scottish king , Malcolm ( recte Edgar , q.v. ) , and with an unnamed Welsh bishop . |
| 12 | By this time , as a man of modest but independent means , he spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 13 | He spent the next twenty-seven years at Elmswell , overseeing his farms and estate , building a new house in the 1630s , and only occasionally visiting places out of the district . |
| 14 | He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties . |
| 15 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 16 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 17 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |