Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 .
2 If Pete kept interrupting him , he could spend the next three years never finishing a sentence .
3 He will challenge and receive no answer , and he will join the first two .
4 So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society .
5 because he can read the first two books , now how they 'll do it with him , he 'll have to just look at the pictures and he 'll go back to square one , and I 've had him actually writing his words , doing letter formation , A , B , C , D
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