Example sentences of "spend [art] [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd spend the next few days in Monaco , getting to know each other ! ’ he finished outrageously . |
| 3 | It 's impossible to say which city Bashlachev belonged to because he was raised in the northern town of Cherepovets , studied at Sverdlovsk University and spent the last few years of his life wandering between Moscow , Leningrad and Siberia . |
| 4 | He had his own rooms and spent the last few years of his life reading and receiving a stream of aristocratic visitors , including the princess of Wales , venturing forth occasionally for trips to the theatre organized through the actress Madge Kendal [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Nicholas Ridley retired from the house of commons at the last election after his outspoken remarks over Europe , he took a peerage and spent the last few months of his life in the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Edward allowed himself to be swept by his particular tide , and spent the next few hours in a blur of short motor trips , a meal , many drinks , shouted insults , conversations . |
| 7 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 8 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 9 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 10 | They spent an emotional few moments in his third-floor room . |
| 11 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 13 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 14 | It will certainly be a dramatic change of scenery after spending the last few weeks in the reserves . ’ |
| 15 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
| 16 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 17 | But he knew that he did n't want to spend the next few hours in his own company . |
| 18 | I have to admit it sounds a lot cosier if we 're due to spend the next few nights under the same roof . ’ |
| 19 | This time it was Jean herself who took the wheel as she took her husband home to spend a cosy few hours by his own fireside . |
| 20 | You 're sure to spend a good few hours at the time playing this fun sports sim — so do n't for get the suntan oil ! |
| 21 | Adventure holidays are increasingly popular and the brave can test their physical and mental endurance in a number of ways from outward-bound courses where the participants usually spend the last few days of their ‘ holiday ’ building themselves a shelter in a sodden landscape and living off nature , to dog-sledging across the Arctic Circle and learning how to build an igloo on the way . |
| 22 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |