Example sentences of "the next few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 2 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
| 3 | Over the next few decades he developed the study of plant communities in Britain , using methods similar to those of Clements . |
| 4 | In the next few sections I will look at the characteristics of LE as used by the black community , with respect to vocabulary , grammar and accent . |
| 5 | And erm first couple of times I kind of did n't respond , and the next few times I was literally flinching |
| 6 | I think that er we are probably some years of and therefore whilst we make indulge our service in the next few moments it each other er we are eventually and then perhaps going through a convenient route er and thrashing out some sort of profit margin . |
| 7 | In the next few pages we explain more about the difficulties which can occur — and how you can protect your business against them . |
| 8 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 9 | This month Jane looks at re-training the older horse and over the next few issues she will be giving invaluable advice on overcoming the most common problems . |
| 10 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |
| 11 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
| 12 | During the next few days we lost my pony , two of our riding mules and five more baggage mules . |
| 13 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 14 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 15 | Over the next few days I shall be looking at the Activity Book and Video Guide again in detail with our designer Phil Hall and then , with the stills from Michael Keefe , shall be able to send you a revised schedule . |
| 16 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 17 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 18 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 19 | During the next few days I went about my duties with propriety and correctness . |
| 20 | Over the next few days I was in touch by letter and by phone with Eliot , and finally it was arranged , in a note dated 9 May , that I should lunch with him on Thursday 19 May , which , as he carefully specified , was Ascension Day . |
| 21 | Unless there is news of a signing for us in the next few days I am seriously think of saying fuck off to Leeds . |
| 22 | Over the next few days it became clear that Jake was avoiding her . |
| 23 | But unless the children 's parents raise twenty thousand pounds within the next few days it will close . |
| 24 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
| 25 | And it is expected that in the next few days she will address the military 's other grievances . |
| 26 | In the next few days she had kept speaking of their child as ‘ my son ’ , with a possessiveness that struck him as bestial and prescient . |
| 27 | For the next few days she refused to speak to anyone , even me . |
| 28 | Over the next few days she made a point of visiting the two animals in their enclosure . |
| 29 | Over the next few days she was to find out just how true that was . |
| 30 | In the course of the evening or the next few days you may come across some new information or viewpoint relating to the lecture that you attended . |