Example sentences of "[pron] spent many year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 2 | Also at Duxford is the Old Flying Machine Company 's Hunter F. Mk. 6A G-BUEZ , which spent many years at the Empire Test Pilots School at Farnborough and Boscombe Down as XF375 before being retired as an instructional airframe at Cranwell in 1982 . |
| 3 | Now 26 , she spent many years after college hitchhiking around the world , drifting through the punk scene in San Francisco to demonstrations in Dallas , squats in Amsterdam and the women 's peace camp in Cosmo , Italy , before a British producer recognised her itinerant musical talent and signed her up with the bestselling Texas Campfire Tapes LP . |
| 4 | The John Motum Plate was named in recognition of the current assistant treasurer of the RFU who spent many years as general secretary of Colchester . |
| 5 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |
| 6 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 7 | I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian ( Mr. Eadie ) , who spent many years on both sides of the Dispatch Box defending the interests of the nation and the British mining industry , pointed that out in his speech . |
| 8 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |