Example sentences of "have spend a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 2 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 3 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |
| 4 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 5 | Mary had spent a little time in close conversation with him and even stroked his cheek at one stage . |
| 6 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 7 | My informant ( who wishes to be anonymous but nevertheless truthful ) had spent a short time in his early days as a signalman at OA & GB Junction Signal box . |
| 8 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 9 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |