Example sentences of "[vb base] spent the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've spent the last year asking the public to write something , anything , and then be photographed . |
| 3 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've spent the last seven months among people who can speak only the most rudimentary English . ’ |
| 5 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years trying to pick up the pieces ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've spent the last four years learning how to forget it , ’ she retorted edgily . |
| 8 | I 've spent the last two years converting this place in my spare time ; it 's only recently been habitable enough to live in . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting garages with my husband attempting to exchange our shared vehicle . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ The children have spent the last four weeks getting to know each other . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Teams of detectives have spent the last two days searching the house . |
| 27 | Smith 's copies have spent the last six days under lock and key at its Dunstable depot . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |