Example sentences of "[conj] for the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith requested , and went back to her own office , where for the next twenty minutes she tried to pick up the threads of her job . |
| 2 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 3 | Neither then nor for the next four days . |
| 4 | In the Balkans it meant that for the next few years Bulgaria under Stambouloff would look to Austria-Hungary ( and even , a little , to Turkey ) , for fear of Russia . |
| 5 | Joey relaxed , happy in the knowledge that for the next few weeks at least , the place would n't run dry of drugs . |
| 6 | Andy was fourteen , I 'd just turned thirteen and was proud of my new status as a teenager ( and , as usual , of the fact that for the next couple of months I was only a year younger than Andy ) . |
| 7 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 8 | Let us make sure that for the next two weeks he still can not prove . ’ |
| 9 | Which now means that for the next oh and Alex , Alex is being a stupid tart as well about this thing . |
| 10 | On stage I still have humbuckers in everything , although for the next tour I hope to change my amp setup to accommodate single coil guitars as well . |
| 11 | ‘ I think the public will be better protected if for the next two years and possibly afterwards you are on a regime of medication which will ensure you do n't do anything like this again , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days . |
| 13 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 14 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 15 | When she refused , Seth fought for the wheel , she won , and for the next fifty miles he fumed . |
| 16 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 17 | ‘ Would you believe it ? ’ he exclaimed ; and for the next ten minutes the surrounding hills were alive with the sound of music , and the happy splash of rising trout . |
| 18 | From there Tony went 3 , 2 , 3 , and for the next eight holes he was 1-over-3s . |
| 19 | In a sentence : for six months the farmer fed the pig , and for the next six months the pig fed the farmer , which is fair . |
| 20 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 21 | She opened a rejuvenation clinic and for the next 30 years many thousands of people flocked to receive what became the most famous , or perhaps , notorious , ‘ rejuvenatory ’ treatment of the century . |
| 22 | In 1638 , eminent men throughout Scotland signed the National Covenant in support of Presbyterianism , and for the next 50 years Scotland struggled to retain the Kirk 's independence . |
| 23 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 24 | That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it . |
| 25 | The ‘ Tiger ’ convoy came within range of air attack on 8th. , and for the next four days most activity in the air tended to centre here . |
| 26 | No. 1–20 passed into the hands of London Transport and for the next few months continued to work as before . |
| 27 | I was conscious soon after , and for the next few hours was in a state of half-sleeping , half-waking , yet aware of the presence of a pretty young nurse , perhaps Thai or Korean , who alternated between giving me sips of water and jabbing a needle in my bum . |
| 28 | He hesitated for a moment as to what to do ; then looking again at the woman at the table , who was now smiling at him , he sat down in the chair , and for the next ten minutes he listened to the banter between the two of them . |
| 29 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 30 | From the many letters I receive I know how popular my teddy patterns have become and so I have done two special seasonable designs , this one depicting a teddy pulling a sledge full of gifts and for the next issue two teddies … well , perhaps you had better buy the magazine to find out for yourself ! |