Example sentences of "have spend the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 2 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 3 | He spoke to the porters in English , because he was trying to forget that he had spent the first ten years of his life in Berlin . |
| 4 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 5 | We 've spent the first month in our new house with an assortment of builders , damp-proofers , wood-wormers , plasterers , plumbers and painters . |
| 6 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |