Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the next [num] " 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 Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years .
3 Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company .
4 These , combined with a particular interest in curative education for children with mental and physical handicaps , he developed over the next eleven years in the course of attachments to children 's hospitals and homes in Austria , Switzerland , and Silesia ( in Germany at that time ) , and , by 1936 , in private practice in Vienna .
5 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 .
6 In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years .
7 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 .
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