Example sentences of "has spend [art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet even DEC , which has spent a small fortune debugging and porting it , has loosened its bear hug . |
2 | Active since 1987 , it has spent the intervening years seeking solutions that combine an adequate defence of the city against flooding with reestablishment and conservation of the environmental characteristics peculiar to the Lagoon and the safeguarding of economic interests on the surrounding hinterland . |
3 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
4 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
5 | Clare Cunning ( 25 ) , pictured right , from Belfast , has spent the past year working as a Social Work volunteer with the Romanian Orphanage Trust in Brasov . |