Example sentences of "have spend a long [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 2 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 3 | If I really had to spend a long time hurting someone slowly , I 'd have to use a blindfold : them or me , one of us would have to have their eyes hidden . |
| 4 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 5 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |