Example sentences of "next [num] years he " 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 | For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 8 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 13 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |
| 14 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 15 | For the next five years he remained the king 's captive , and only in December 1327 , a year after the old reign had ended in a revolution , did Edward III order his release and the return of his lands . |
| 16 | During the next five years he travelled –40,000 kilometres and visited 45 different countries . |
| 17 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 18 | Over the next five years he tried both options . |
| 19 | For the next twelve years he cruised in the North Sea and Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa . |
| 20 | During the next twelve years he rose to the position of general manager , in charge of finance and personnel , and during this time established a reputation in the business community for ability and honest dealing . |
| 21 | For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay . |
| 22 | For the next 13 years he served in the Met . |
| 23 | Armed with the classic mandarin 's pedigree , he joined the Treasury in 1961 and over the next 27 years he bounced between his first department and Downing Street , with the pattern being broken only by a spell with the Bank of England and City institutions in 1969 . |
| 24 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 25 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 26 | For the next fifteen years he combined his duties as missioner with honourary service to the BDA as part-time Secretary/treasurer before becoming full-time General Secretary in 1966 and one of the Association 's most influential figures for the next fourteen years . |
| 27 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 28 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 29 | During the next four years he travelled extensively in China , recording every facet of life at all levels of society , from paupers to princes . |
| 30 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |