Example sentences of "[vb past] for the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days . |
| 32 | In 1724 Peter I ordered that all papers relating to foreign policy should be brought together in the college archive ; and work on this continued for the next two decades . |
| 33 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 34 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 35 | He then waited for the next major religious festival — Whitsuntide — and made the translation into a great occasion , although with troops at hand in case of trouble . |
| 36 | For example , in his chemistry exam John wrote for the first three answers blank , ether and litmus test . |
| 37 | One was quite hot and spicy but I 'd forgotten what we had for the first two the two that they brought out . |
| 38 | She was living with her boyfriend as she had for the last eight years and the hospital team were quite happy to talk to him about the proposed care plan for her . |
| 39 | The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight . |
| 40 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 41 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 42 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 43 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 44 | Fred , of Fence Houses , County Durham , said : ‘ We queued for the last three weeks and left empty handed . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 47 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 48 | This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work . |
| 49 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |