Example sentences of "[vb base] spend the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |
| 2 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've spent the last year asking the public to write something , anything , and then be photographed . |
| 4 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 6 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 9 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 10 | And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I 've spent the last day or so watching you with other people , and frankly , Fran , it 's obvious to anyone that when you 're with me you act far differently . ’ |
| 12 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 13 | Finally a look ahead to tomorrow 's programme when we 'll be following a detachment of airmen from RAF Lyneham who 've spent the last two months flying food to the starving in Somalia . |
| 14 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 15 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This is the world that I enjoy , and that I have spent the second half of my life so far in exploring and learning about . |
| 18 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 19 | I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting garages with my husband attempting to exchange our shared vehicle . |
| 20 | As part of Stone Grove , a four-piece band who have spent the last two years quietly writing and recording in the relative obscurity of Clapton , east London , Simon has been revising , reassessing , investigating his roots , or in his own words , ‘ taking notes ’ . |
| 21 | Workers from VOLSEC have spent the last year renovating the Ingrow Station and plan to replace the station buildings next year so I wonder if anything unexplained will be found then ? |
| 22 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 23 | Or maybe I am in the perfect position to write it , as I have spent the last week slumped on the sofa , watching the war . |
| 24 | ‘ Lady Blaine , I have spent the last week debating whether or not to ruin your father Hiram , and his syndicate , and provide the information to send them , and him , to prison for stockmarket fraud . |
| 25 | ‘ The children have spent the last four weeks getting to know each other . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's 5.15 a.m. and we have spent the last two hours asleep in a lay-by just outside Solihull and breakfast in Birmingham is the next item on the agenda . ’ |
| 27 | Teams of detectives have spent the last two days searching the house . |
| 28 | Smith 's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot . |
| 29 | Lawyers for the relatives have spent the last two years arguing that the Government breached Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights , which guarantees the ‘ right to life ’ . |
| 30 | Some west German firms plan to spend the next three years lobbying to incorporate eastern-style flexibility into western wage deals . |