Example sentences of "have spent [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Baxter , senior research scientist at the Centre for Rural Building , Aberdeen , was at the National Pig Fair in April to help launch the Freedom farrowing system , which he has spent eight years designing . |
| 2 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 3 | Brian May has spent five years making his debut solo album . |
| 4 | Our reporter Tim Hurst has spent five days on board , as the Gloucester prepared for her new role , and also visited Albania , a country that once lived under the world 's toughest dictatorship . |
| 5 | Robert Layton has spent five months preparing the British , French , Spanish and Portugese paperwork that will allow him to make two or three landings a day as he hops across Europe in a plane that can carry just ten gallons of fuel . |
| 6 | Rover has spent 18 months restyling the bodywork to give the car a more chunky up to date look . |
| 7 | In an unusual joint venture with industry , a group of young trainee managers from Exxon Chemicals ' offices in Europe has spent four months in Cameroon , carrying out practical conservation work on WWF 's Korup rainforest project . |
| 8 | Mr Osman , 58 , a banker , has spent four years in Pentonville Prison , fighting extradition to Hong Kong on fraud charges . |
| 9 | JOHN MAJOR is willing to meet the author Salman Rushdie , who has spent four years under a fatwa assassination incitement by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 10 | They can recommend individuals for honours or awards — often the district postmistress who has spent fifty years behind the counter and then receives an unexpected OBE will have been suggested by the local lord lieutenant . |
| 11 | My married son has spent 13 years in the RAF . |
| 12 | The Irish farmer 's son has spent six years as private trainer to wealthy businessman Geoff Hubbard , 74 , who used to own 25 companies including an airline . |
| 13 | LOYD Grossman has spent six years showing 12 million TV viewers how the other half live . |
| 14 | Your son Wilfred has spent six years as a grub in this school and we are still awaiting for him to emerge from the chrysalis . |
| 15 | His team has spent six months investigating the alleged leaks of security files to loyalist terror groups . |
| 16 | The comedian Ronnie Barker has spent two hours being questioned by police after accidentally buying stolen property . |
| 17 | Robert Meaby says that more young talent is in the Eastbourne pipeline and indeed the addition of a good player or two can work wonders — Rossalls 's new recruit David Tonroe , 19 , from Hong Kong , has spent two years at university in California , plays to plus one and has already appeared in the Eisenhower Trophy . |
| 18 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 19 | According to UK managing director Richard Bearpark , the company has spent two years absorbing the costs of merger between the data and communications divisions of Siemens and the computer activities of Nixdorf . |
| 20 | The 32-year-old daredevil has spent two years negotiating with the Chinese authorities to make the jump . |
| 21 | Carmen has spent two years in San Salvador , forced to leave her farm in Chalatenango because of the army 's scorched earth policies . |
| 22 | The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics has spent two years working with the Terence Higgins Trust to develop the document currently under consideration . |
| 23 | This is also reflected in a soon-to-be released report by the Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment which has spent two years studying new economic techniques of valuing the environment . |
| 24 | The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season . |
| 25 | The objective reality of such an energy distribution system is thoroughly documented by Dr Hiroshi Motoyama of Tokyo , who has spent thirty years researching the subject of Bio-energy and from results of tests conducted over a fifteen-year period qualifies his work in these words |
| 26 | But not content with just looking the part , Spotted Eagle has spent thirty years studying the history and culture of the native American Indian . |
| 27 | The girl , of Pitsea , Essex , has spent 14 hours a day with two specially trained policewomen and a counsellor to try to get information on the rapist . |
| 28 | Ms Blaazer has spent 14 years with The Industrial Society , where she is now Senior Consultant . |
| 29 | Christopher Newell , president and chief executive , says that the closely-held company has spent 10 PhD-years on perfecting the product , which he claims manages a 98% recognition rate . |
| 30 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |