Example sentences of "[vb past] spend [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CW reported spending 2 days per week on user support in February and March , and stressed need for action . |
| 2 | He 'd spent 18 months in prison awaiting trial and served 6 months of a 10 year sentence . |
| 3 | and he 'd spent fifty quid in Sainsburys . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The one change to what he had recounted to Mrs Wilson lay in the time he had spent in London : he told Maidstone he 'd spent six months there . |
| 6 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 8 | There was a moment of sudden realisation that we 'd spent four months raising this cash and we were not going to let it go that easily . |
| 9 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 10 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 14 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |
| 15 | It meant spending two months living in the spare bedroom and the kitchen , the only rooms not used by the crew , while the cast — including Vanessa Redgrave , Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and , fresh from The Silence of the Lambs , Anthony Hopkins — were filming . |
| 16 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 17 | On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism . |
| 18 | Sharon , 28 , planned to spend two months climbing in the Himalayas . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had spent one night with her fiancé before he was posted overseas , and she was unlucky . |
| 21 | Herself the illegitimate daughter of a Danish sailor who had spent one month in Paradise Street before taking ship for ever , she had built herself a firmly structured life which could withstand all but atomic bombardment . |
| 22 | In those days also the boats were unchanged since Vincent Van Gogh had spent one week there in June 1888 and had painted them , red and blue , green and yellow , with coloured delicate masts erect , and the slanted , tapering yard-arms crossing each other on the pale mackerel sky . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had spent five years in prison in the early sixties for his opposition to the Shah . |
| 25 | He had spent five years at a English public school , so the lay-out of Anglican cathedrals was not unknown to him . |
| 26 | 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 " . |
| 27 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 28 | When Paisley man Christy Welsh was released by the Americans from the hands of the Nazis in Brunau , May 4th 1945 , the last thing on his mind was a return visit to the little Greek island of Leros , where he had spent five days desperate fighting before being taken prisoner . |
| 29 | Kevin Jones , site manager for Wrexham-based RMG Engineering , said his firm had spent five months dismantling parts of the plant and in all 173 heavy loads destined for China would be moved from the doomed steelworks over the next two weeks . |
| 30 | 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 . |