Example sentences of "[vb past] spend two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 3 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sharon , 28 , planned to spend two months climbing in the Himalayas . |
| 6 | The fact that all the nation 's radio stations , including City Radio , had spent two hours denouncing the hoax call of the breakfast hour was irrelevant . |
| 7 | He had spent two hours in his room , at his console . |
| 8 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 14 | A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson , 42 , who had spent two nights in the 500 ft deep vent in Hawaii . |
| 15 | They had spent two nights in bed-and-breakfast accommodation before taking a month 's let on a furnished flat close to Clapham Junction mainline railway station . |
| 16 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 17 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 18 | These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion , many taking unpaid leave from work . |