Example sentences of "[vb past] spend [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 2 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 4 | The Prime Minister and senior Cabinet colleagues gathered at the House of Commons Church … it was a fitting place for Nicholas Ridley 's memorial service , he 'd spent 33 years of his life at the centre of British politics . |
| 5 | We 'd spent seven years rehearsing the same plays , playing in the same team , calling the same teachers by their nicknames and falling in love with the same classmates . |
| 6 | He said the company had not called on shareholders for funds since 1985 and had spent recent years chasing funds to build up income producing assets . |
| 7 | She had spent 71 years in exile , but Vienna 's Socialist mayor was in St Stephen 's cathedral for the requiem mass at which the old imperial anthem Gott erhalte unseren Kaiser ( ’ God save our Emperor ’ ) was sung and a benediction given in the seven languages of the Austro-Hungarian empire . |
| 8 | A London Christian , who had spent fifteen years in many branches of the occult before his conversion at the Luis Palau mission at Queens Park Rangers soccer stadium in 1985 , said : ‘ In my experience , there are not too many differences between the first group of witches and satanists . |
| 9 | He had spent five years in prison in the early sixties for his opposition to the Shah . |
| 10 | He had spent five years at a English public school , so the lay-out of Anglican cathedrals was not unknown to him . |
| 11 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 12 | A former Roman Catholic priest who had spent eight years as a missionary in Africa and then seven years in England and Scotland , he arrived in Kingsley four years ago at the start of the project to breathe new life into the empty village school . |
| 13 | Previously with the prominent British executive search firm of Whitehead Mann , he had spent eight years in industry , and had worked in general consulting with HAY-MSL after a distinguished academic record at Cambridge . |
| 14 | Adrian Westbury had spent 5 years building up his flock . |
| 15 | Göncz , 68 , a writer and literary translator , had spent six years in prison after receiving a life sentence for his role in the revolutionary government crushed by Soviet intervention in 1956 . |
| 16 | At the age of 30 , he had spent nine years working in the family haulage business . |
| 17 | Bassett brought alive a club who had spent 14 years since the mid-70s commuting between the Second and Third Divisions . |
| 18 | Miss Fogerty was a little afraid of Miss Watson , for though she herself had spent thirty years at Thrush Green School , she was only the assistant teacher and she had been taught to respect her betters . |
| 19 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 20 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 21 | They had spent two years in custody on charges of treason , murder and kidnapping in connection with the attempted coup in July-August 1990 [ see pp. 37606-07 ; 38239 ] . |
| 22 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 23 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 24 | President Jimmy Carter had spent New Years Eve 1977–78 with him and praised him extravagantly . |
| 25 | I had spent many years teaching the EFATO to PPL students , but this was different . |
| 26 | But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo . |
| 27 | She had spent many years of her adult life in Page Street and most of her old friends still lived there in the row of terraced houses . |
| 28 | They settled in England after Frits had spent many years serving in the Dutch Merchant Navy . |
| 29 | His ambition was stimulated by Nnamdi Azikwe , a Nigerian , who had spent many years ( 1925 — 34 ) in the United States doing graduate work at Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 30 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |