Example sentences of "he [verb] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 2 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 3 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 4 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 5 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |