Example sentences of "[vb past] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 3 | Early in 1989 his book , A Brief History of Time , toppled my autobiography from No 1 to No 2 on the best-seller list , which positions we retained for the next 13 weeks . |
| 4 | He was at once promoted to lance-corporal but although Travis [ Commander Edward Travis who was chief administrator at B.P. ] tried for the next six months to find a suitable military unit to which Harold could be attached as an officer , he had no luck . |
| 5 | Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years . |
| 6 | Though Celtic dominated for the next 15 minutes they failed to kill Dundee off and almost paid the penalty . |
| 7 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |
| 8 | In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs . |
| 9 | And when they died and the fleas had finished feasting on their blood , which was by then putrid and crawling with the bacilli , the fleas looked round for another host , and if they could not find another rat , or any small hairy creature to their liking , they settled for the next best thing , which was usually human . |
| 10 | But , since Cara was supposed to be with her in Czechoslovakia and had said that she 'd be doing her a favour if she did n't ring them , Fabia settled for the next best thing . |
| 11 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 12 | So the Irish went for the next best thing , consultative status , getting a toe in the door . |
| 13 | Edward cried for the next two days , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 14 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 15 | Sporadic firing and the misery of Joseph 's people continued for the next two days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years . |
| 18 | Their friendship continued for the next few days . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This venture laid the foundations for the Hull Arctic whaling trade , which prospered for the next sixty years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |