Example sentences of "[art] next [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 2 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 3 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 4 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 5 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 6 | Her husband has been awarded a Research Fellowship at Queen 's College , Birmingham , so for the next two years they will be dividing their time between Birmingham and Derbyshire . |
| 7 | This transmission , which can handle up to 221lb ft torque , is definitely the shape of things to come at Mercedes , and in the next two years it is likely that all six-cylinder Mercedes cars will be equipped with it . |
| 8 | At an absolute minimum , the worth of the company must be £100m ( in fact , within the next two years it would be worth £25Om . ) |
| 9 | If I could have foreseen the progress of events over the next two years I would probably have stood up and run directly back to Boulogne . |
| 10 | It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played . |
| 11 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 12 | ‘ Over the next two years I shall be paying particular attention to the need to stress the primary importance of manufacturing industry to this region 's future , ’ he said . |
| 13 | For the next two years he was a pupil under ( Sir ) Henry Fowler [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway at its Derby works . |
| 14 | For most of the next two years he served with the army in Newcastle , though in 1650 the council of state declared him to be unfit to be deputy governor of the garrison . |
| 15 | For the next two years he worked as a solicitor in Exmouth . |
| 16 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 17 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 18 | It 's hoped within the next two years she 'll make a full recovery , but it 's still not certain whether her marriage will ever recover . |
| 19 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 20 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 21 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 22 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 23 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 24 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 25 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 26 | For the next fifteen years he combined his duties as missioner with honourary service to the BDA as part-time Secretary/treasurer before becoming full-time General Secretary in 1966 and one of the Association 's most influential figures for the next fourteen years . |
| 27 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 28 | Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities . |
| 29 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 30 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |