Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 3 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 4 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 5 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 6 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 7 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 8 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 9 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 10 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 11 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 12 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 13 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 14 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
| 15 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
| 16 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 17 | After a heavily-publicised week on the slopes of Lech with their mother , the Princess of Wales , the princes are likely to join their father for the next part of their Easter holiday . |
| 18 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
| 19 | Until recently , their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error . |
| 20 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 21 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
| 22 | ‘ We will want to monitor her health for the next month or two at least before letting her return to England . ’ |
| 23 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
| 24 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 25 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 26 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 27 | Clearly he was saving his powder for the next negotiating battle in the GATT talks . |
| 28 | Richmond said McHale was already planning his side for the next campaign . |
| 29 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
| 30 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |