Example sentences of "[verb] spent [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |
| 2 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 3 | Brian May has spent five years making his debut solo album . |
| 4 | Mr Osman , 58 , a banker , has spent four years in Pentonville Prison , fighting extradition to Hong Kong on fraud charges . |
| 5 | JOHN MAJOR is willing to meet the author Salman Rushdie , who has spent four years under a fatwa assassination incitement by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 6 | They can recommend individuals for honours or awards — often the district postmistress who has spent fifty years behind the counter and then receives an unexpected OBE will have been suggested by the local lord lieutenant . |
| 7 | My married son has spent 13 years in the RAF . |
| 8 | The Irish farmer 's son has spent six years as private trainer to wealthy businessman Geoff Hubbard , 74 , who used to own 25 companies including an airline . |
| 9 | LOYD Grossman has spent six years showing 12 million TV viewers how the other half live . |
| 10 | Your son Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school and we are still awaiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis . |
| 11 | Robert Meaby says that more young talent is in the Eastbourne pipeline and indeed the addition of a good player or two can work wonders — Rossalls 's new recruit David Tonroe , 19 , from Hong Kong , has spent two years at university in California , plays to plus one and has already appeared in the Eisenhower Trophy . |
| 12 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 13 | According to UK managing director Richard Bearpark , the company has spent two years absorbing the costs of merger between the data and communications divisions of Siemens and the computer activities of Nixdorf . |
| 14 | The 32-year-old daredevil has spent two years negotiating with the Chinese authorities to make the jump . |
| 15 | Carmen has spent two years in San Salvador , forced to leave her farm in Chalatenango because of the army 's scorched earth policies . |
| 16 | The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics has spent two years working with the Terence Higgins Trust to develop the document currently under consideration . |
| 17 | This is also reflected in a soon-to-be released report by the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment which has spent two years studying new economic techniques of valuing the environment . |
| 18 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 19 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 20 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 21 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 22 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |
| 23 | Publishers grow thick skins against negative reviewing , but I remain puzzled at the volume of abuse directed at this particular book , by an author who has spent many years working on his subject , opening up new areas of research , and who has arguably contributed more in recent years ( viz Orwell : The War Broadcasts , Orwell : The War Commentaries and The Larger Evils ) to the study of Orwell 's work than any other scholar . |
| 24 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 25 | The objective reality of such an energy distribution system is thoroughly documented by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Tokyo , who has spent thirty years researching the subject of Bio-energy and from results of tests conducted over a fifteen-year period qualifies his work in these words |
| 26 | But not content with just looking the part , Spotted Eagle has spent thirty years studying the history and culture of the native American Indian . |
| 27 | Ms Blaazer has spent 14 years with The Industrial Society , where she is now Senior Consultant . |
| 28 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 29 | Spinrad has spent 10 years measuring the distance to remote galaxies with strong radio-signals . |
| 30 | He has spent 10 years living in London and the last four in Liphook . |