Example sentences of "[verb] spend the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she refuses to spend the next seven months in hospital — and I ca n't say I blame her . |
| 2 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 3 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 4 | If you can just work spend the next couple of minutes working through that . |
| 5 | We had Wednesday night in the Earls Court hotel , then I said I 'd have to spend the next night away , and she said OK . |
| 6 | Lydia had intended to spend the next few weeks alone attempting to eradicate these shafts of reminiscence , determined not to follow the common course and go round seeking replacements for her lost love : an undignified and doom-laden procedure , leading to recriminations and disgust . |
| 7 | Microsoft had i860s in its labs , but its engineers , whilst reportedly ‘ not un-impressed ’ with the part , ‘ did n't want to spend the next six years writing assembler code , ’ for the very complex processor , and shelved the port . |
| 8 | But he knew that he did n't want to spend the next few hours in his own company . |
| 9 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 10 | They 've had plenty of reason to , to mar put up a marker in the three weeks and we 've spent the next three or four weeks after that discussing it . |
| 11 | They had booked a Toyota camper van and told the hire company they intended spending the next three weeks touring New Zealand . |
| 12 | Some west German firms plan to spend the next three years lobbying to incorporate eastern-style flexibility into western wage deals . |