Example sentences of "[coord] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet neither at this stage nor for the next eighteen months did he have any clear plans to launch a full-scale attack on the church or to break with Rome . |
| 2 | Neither then nor for the next four days . |
| 3 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some eight hours later , and for the next four days , it sets about the task of ejecting its companions from the nest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That explains why for six months in a year we watch cricket and for the next six talk about it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And for the next two or three hundred years it was very slow progress in terms of technical development although the industrial revolution came along as we all know . |
| 18 | Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From there Tony went 3 , 2 , 3 , and for the next eight holes he was 1-over-3s . |
| 22 | When she refused , Seth fought for the wheel , she won , and for the next fifty miles he fumed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Intraoesophageal pH , and the intensity and duration of symptoms ( heartburn , acid regurgitation ) were recorded during infusions and for the next 10 minutes . |
| 25 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 26 | 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 . |
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| 28 | 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 . |
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| 30 | 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 . |