Example sentences of "and [prep] the next [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 2 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
| 3 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 4 | The ‘ Tiger ’ convoy came within range of air attack on 8th. , and for the next four days most activity in the air tended to centre here . |
| 5 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 6 | It was normal for a boy to start at 45 at age 14 , and for the next four years his pay went up a shilling a year . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ This massive geophysical effort will continue for the rest of this year and well into 1993 , and for the next four months , we will be using two seismic crews to enable us to push ahead . |
| 9 | In a sentence : for six months the farmer fed the pig , and for the next six months the pig fed the farmer , which is fair . |
| 10 | In the 1972 election the Ngwane National Liberation Congress ( NNLC ) won three seats , and this modest revival in nationalist fortunes so disturbed Sobhuza that he promptly abrogated the constitution and for the next six years ruled by decree through the national council , a traditional body of tribal advisers . |
| 11 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 12 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 13 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 14 | As a result the German frontier was broken , and for the next two years the provinces of Germany and Gaul were plundered by the invaders . |
| 15 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 16 | In 1905 Hammerton was invited to join Harmsworth 's Amalgamated Press , then the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world , and for the next seventeen years his employer 's energetic and ‘ radium-like personality ’ , as described by Hammerton , provided him with the background to his life 's work . |
| 17 | From there Tony went 3 , 2 , 3 , and for the next eight holes he was 1-over-3s . |
| 18 | When she refused , Seth fought for the wheel , she won , and for the next fifty miles he fumed . |
| 19 | Sixteen patients with PSS had : ( a ) oesophageal manometry and endoscopy ; ( b ) acid perfusion of the oesophagus with simultaneous measurement of intraoesophageal pH during perfusion and for the next 10 minutes ; ( c ) 22 hour monitoring of intraoesophageal pH ; and ( d ) an evaluation of reflux symptoms during and after perfusion and during overnight pH monitoring . |
| 20 | Intraoesophageal pH , and the intensity and duration of symptoms ( heartburn , acid regurgitation ) were recorded during infusions and for the next 10 minutes . |
| 21 | At the end of that time they again expressed doubts as to their liability to pay and for the next three years paid under protest . |
| 22 | Fill in and return the payment instruction overleaf and for the next three months you 'll receive the New Internationalist magazine absolutely free and with no obligation , plus your gifts . |
| 23 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 24 | Nick Clark dips into the Popperfoto archive in ’ Snapshots of History ’ beginning tomorrow night and for the next 3 nights on Central News . |
| 25 | Shortly after that , Ramsey took over as England 's manager , and for the next 12 years the fortunes of the two men were inextricably intertwined . |
| 26 | She opened a rejuvenation clinic and for the next 30 years many thousands of people flocked to receive what became the most famous , or perhaps , notorious , ‘ rejuvenatory ’ treatment of the century . |
| 27 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 28 | ‘ Would you believe it ? ’ he exclaimed ; and for the next ten minutes the surrounding hills were alive with the sound of music , and the happy splash of rising trout . |
| 29 | He hesitated for a moment as to what to do ; then looking again at the woman at the table , who was now smiling at him , he sat down in the chair , and for the next ten minutes he listened to the banter between the two of them . |
| 30 | In the following summer the English reoccupied the border counties and Dumfriesshire , and for the next ten years the principal concern of the Scots became the recovery of their king and their lost territory . |