Example sentences of "[prep] [art] next [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably , more than seven years later he ran laps of 58½ , 63½ , 65¾ , and 66 seconds at Lillie Bridge , London , on 23 August 1886 to establish a world 's best time of 4 minutes 12¾ seconds that was unbeaten anywhere for the next twenty-eight seasons and was unbeaten by a Briton for forty-nine years , until Sydney Wooderson returned 4 minutes 12.7 seconds , running in Glasgow on 3 August 1935 . |
| 2 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be working like a Trojan for the next twelve weeks , ’ Lisa smiled back as she thanked him for the coffee . |
| 5 | This routine will last for the next twelve weeks . |
| 6 | With the mounting balance-of-payments crisis , the TUC was reluctantly persuaded in the summer of 1976 to renew a virtual wage-freeze policy with a limit of 5 per cent increases for the next twelve months . |
| 7 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 8 | If as Secretary of State you get it wrong , then you — and crucially the people you are serving — live with the consequences for the next twelve months and beyond . |
| 9 | At present a budget album studio , Bow Lane have big plans for the next twelve months , including the upgrading of the outboard gear and the installation of a revolutionary new engineer-friendly digital console and direct-to-disc digital recorder . |
| 10 | Every year you will have the opportunity to review your budgeting requirements for the next twelve months . |
| 11 | That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams . |
| 12 | for the next twelve months |
| 13 | I 'm going to sacrifice maybe holidays this year , and maybe have a couple of long weekend breaks , as long as I earn enough to keep my head above water and to pay my way in life for the next twelve months , keep my family fed and watered I 'm Okay , then I 'm going to take stock in twelve months ' time . |
| 14 | For the next twelve years , its reports were to form an important strand in the formulation of policy . |
| 15 | The Zone covers 300 acres which , for the next twelve years , will offer unprecedented benefits for industrialists and investors . |
| 16 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 17 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 18 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 19 | He came into the Palace side at the start of 1925–26 and , injuries or illness apart , was a fixture there for the next eleven seasons , so that he is still within our top eight all-time appearances . |
| 20 | For the next eleven years , Khrushchev became the effective leader . |
| 21 | For the next eleven years , the country was under the effective control of the army , and as its commander-in-chief , Oliver Cromwell , and most of his fellow officers were far from convinced of the need for any state church , and firmly opposed to any compulsory religious system , Presbyterianism was consigned to a limited and localized presence . |
| 22 | Eliot had already agreed to share his new home with John Hayward who , having supervised its decoration , joined him a month after Eliot had " settled in " ; for the next eleven years this was to be their mutual address . |
| 23 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 24 | Also in that cast was a young John Robertson Hare [ q.v. ] , and the team of Walls , Hare , and Lynn was thus created , one which was to stay together for the next eleven years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The train braked to a shuddering halt at the Paisley signal box where it remained for the next thirty minutes whilst the driver and guard proceeded to examine the underside and topside of the train . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 30 | It was renamed to the more familiar hydrogen in 1790 and ousted hot air as the preferred lifting agent for the next thirty years . |