Example sentences of "spend [det] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 2 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 3 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 4 | With this in mind he spent most of the last two years of peacetime , training in Switzerland and then in the USA . |
| 5 | LAURA JOINED THE WRNS IN 1944 FROM MERTHYR TYDFIL AND SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARIS AND BRUSSELS . |
| 6 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 7 | Not being detached for service in America , he probably spent most of the next few years in London . |
| 8 | The difference between those spending all and those spending some of the last twelve months in a home persisted when the analysis is confined to those for whom relatives responded . |
| 9 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 10 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 11 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
| 12 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 13 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 14 | He probably left for Wales in November 1469 and may have spent most of the next few months there . |
| 15 | This would give him time to get back to Mrs Lorimer 's , out of his jeans and grubby shirt , and into something that smelt less heavily of the smoke , sweat and beer of the Prince of Wales where he had spent most of the last few working days . |
| 16 | He was to spend most of the next fourteen years in official residences . |