Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] spent [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 2 | The first time was in February , when she spent ten days with us when her father came home after his X-ray — therapy treatment . |
| 3 | The Queen Mother , who will be 93 this year , said she felt ‘ much better ’ as she left the hospital where she spent 63 hours . |
| 4 | The Queen Mother , who will be 93 this year , said she felt ‘ much better ’ as she left the hospital where she spent 63 hours . |
| 5 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |
| 6 | The aircraft returned to Klagenfurt and then went on to Naples where he spent two nights before flying to England on 24 May , he said . |
| 7 | He went on to Italy , where he spent two years in the study of medicine at Padua University . |
| 8 | Before they were due to begin , Eliot travelled once again to America — first to his birthplace St Louis , where a heatwave affected him disagreeably , and then on to Cambridge where he spent two weeks with his relatives before travelling to Connecticut and New York . |
| 9 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 10 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 11 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |