Example sentences of "next [adj] year [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 2 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 3 | Over the next few years he was active in , first , local and soon national military affairs . |
| 4 | For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts . |
| 5 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 6 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 7 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 8 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 9 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 10 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 11 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 12 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 13 | For the next four years he was symptom free only while on elemental diet despite at least 12 week trials of prednisolone , azathioprine , and methotrexate . |
| 14 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 15 | Over the next thirty years he was to write or illustrate over seventy books . |
| 16 | For the next two years she was supposed to spend five hours a day lying flat on her back on an old Flemish seat in the hall of her parents ' London house . |
| 17 | For the next two years he was a pupil under ( Sir ) Henry Fowler [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Midland Railway at its Derby works . |