Example sentences of "[verb] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 2 | Sam , without any hesitation had agreed knowing that to wait for the first available fireman would delay his train 's departure . |
| 3 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 4 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 5 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 6 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 7 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 8 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 9 | Our fascinating day among the gentle giants is completed by a drive down to Los Angeles where we will stay for the next two nights in the Anaheim area of the city . |
| 10 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 12 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 13 | Although Il Moro led for the first two legs , New Zealand showed her fearsome ability to climb to windward when she squeezed up from underneath Il Moro to take the lead at the third mark . |
| 14 | I noticed there are horse treks arranged for the next three days . |
| 15 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 16 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 17 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 18 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 19 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 20 | But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year . |
| 21 | A cow , reared for the first six months of its life in an environment of people and horses , may refuse to have anything to do with cows in its own paddock for all the years that follow . |
| 22 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 23 | Crime in Strathclyde has fallen for the ninth consecutive month . |
| 24 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 25 | According to the 1990 report of the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , 100 million people , one-quarter of Africa 's population , were receiving less than 80 per cent of daily food needs , and per capita incomes had fallen for the 12th successive year . |
| 26 | The number of people out of work has fallen for the fifth consecutive month . |
| 27 | COT deaths in England and Wales have fallen for the third consecutive year , Government figures revealed yesterday . |
| 28 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 29 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 30 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |