Example sentences of "for the next seven " in BNC.

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1 The bitterness and the troubles of the coal mines for the next seven , or for that matter twenty-seven years , derived in great part from the feeling of both miners and owners that they had been betrayed .
2 For the next seven years Asquith 's old free-trade section of the party was detached from the Lloyd George supporters .
3 The Saxham , Suffolk , base for the Claas UK parts division is now working 24 hours , seven days a week , for the next seven weeks to provide a harvest back-up .
4 A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years .
5 I eat a minimum for the next seven days .
6 More aircraft provided cover , with Coastal Command Blenheims dropping smoke to screen landings and fighter-bombers — again Blenheims and Beaufighters — putting a protective umbrella over the raiding force for the next seven hours by flying 400 miles ( 650km ) from Wick , north Scotland , or 250 miles ( 400km ) from Shetland .
7 This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years .
8 But the marriage plan for Matilda was now dead , and within a few months her father was killed in a border skirmish , and we hear no more of her for the next seven years .
9 If the adventurers agree to help the Collective Ghost , it will fade into nothingness , but return each dawn and dusk for the next seven days .
10 Every seven years representatives of the eight magical colleges in Altdorf meet to decide which of them will reign as the Supreme Patriarch for the next seven years .
11 Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues .
12 FOR THE NEXT SEVEN WEEKS they moseyed around the Western Isles , often encountering rough weather : Skye , Raasay , Coll , Mull , Ulva , Inchkenneth and Iona .
13 The two suitcases represented everything she thought she would need for the next seven months at the Hamiltons ' , and it seemed like an odd way to be taking what might be a big step in her life .
14 For the next seven years , the race became the Seagram Grand National , culminating in 1991 with a victory by a horse , born and bred in New Zealand , but trained in the UK .
15 Work will continue around the clock for the next seven months .
16 Then they were divided into various groups and given unlimited normal rat food and water for the next seven days .
17 Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum .
18 Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels .
19 If you are more than twelve hours late , take the most recently delayed pill straightaway , discard any earlier missed pills and use extra precautions ( e.g. condoms ) for the next seven days .
20 Mrs Shahidi , of Herne Hill , south-east London , who lost £121,000 , and Moussa Armand , 70 , of Acton , west London , who lost £300,000 , intend to eat no food for the next seven days as part of the long-running campaign to persuade ministers to provide more help for BCCI victims .
21 But er , we were not successful in putting up an er and er to have a member of Wales elected on this occasion to serve for the next seven years unfortunately !
22 Oi think of a project for me that I can do for the next seven weeks .
23 For the next seven weeks .
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