Example sentences of "[det] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 2 | Yet the longer she spent with Nathan Bryce the harder it was to accept that for the next four weeks her only escape from him would be in sleep . |
| 3 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 4 | The Labour amendment was to explore ways in which resources can be provided to fund and enhance refurbishment programme without closures and that for the next two years the additional necessary funding be sourced from housing benefit income and income from the sale of East Midlands Airport and from other capital receipts . |
| 5 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 6 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 7 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
| 8 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
| 9 | Bart Czirr and Gary Jensen worked on this for the next several months in between teaching duties as the new university year had now begun . |
| 10 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 12 | On Health Master , because it 's quite a common thing where employees can be on full pay for six months , then half for the next six months . |
| 13 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |
| 14 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 15 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |