Example sentences of "next [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 2 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 3 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 4 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 5 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 6 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 7 | The next few years he spent in travel and ( dread words ) in commerce , drinking in the wonderful perplexities that Europe , after India and Scotland , threw at him . |
| 8 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
| 9 | Over the next few years he gained considerable administrative experience , serving first as a member of the household of Archbishop Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] and later as warden of the priory 's Essex manors and as treasurer for two terms . |
| 10 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 11 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 12 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 13 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 14 | For the next thirteen years they offered no really serious opposition to government policies : but their refusal in 1787 to accept proposals for important new taxes and tax reforms was a crucial step in the destruction of the old regime in France . |
| 15 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 16 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 17 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 18 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 19 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 20 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 21 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 22 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 23 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |
| 24 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 25 | Over the next ten years it kept going by making a succession of calls on its shareholders for additional funds ; by 1708 it was fairly clearly insolvent , and after 1713 it almost completely ceased trading . |
| 26 | Over the next ten years it had averaged £23 billion a year . |
| 27 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |
| 28 | For the next twenty-five years he held a series of appointments as minister : St Thomas 's Square , Hackney ( 1880–5 ) ; Cheetham Hill Congregational church , Manchester ( 1885–8 ) ; Clarendon Park , Leicester ( 1888–94 ) ; and Emmanuel church , Cambridge ( 1894–1901 ) . |
| 29 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 30 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |