Example sentences of "have spent two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comedian Ronnie Barker has spent two hours being questioned by police after accidentally buying stolen property . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Chris is so emotionally paralysed that he has spent two years wooing Ann , who has been working in New York , through the post . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 32-year-old daredevil has spent two years negotiating with the Chinese authorities to make the jump . |
| 6 | Carmen has spent two years in San Salvador , forced to leave her farm in Chalatenango because of the army 's scorched earth policies . |
| 7 | The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics has spent two years working with the Terence Higgins Trust to develop the document currently under consideration . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season . |
| 10 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd spent two years at Stanford University Press , so I knew something about price ceilings . ’ |
| 12 | Frankly , having spent two days looking at how different it is for Nirvana right now — or rather , how it was six weeks ago — I found it difficult not to . |
| 13 | The defendants were said to have spent two hours on the base and taken photographs of themselves painting the aircraft . |
| 14 | The fact that all the nation 's radio stations , including City Radio , had spent two hours denouncing the hoax call of the breakfast hour was irrelevant . |
| 15 | He had spent two hours in his room , at his console . |
| 16 | She had spent two years solidly on the programme and felt now was a good time for a change . |
| 17 | ‘ They probably killed a lot of people , and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands , ’ the investigating journalist was told by Robert Martens , who had spent two years compiling the lists in the US Embassy in Jakarta . |
| 18 | They had spent two years in custody on charges of treason , murder and kidnapping in connection with the attempted coup in July-August 1990 [ see pp. 37606-07 ; 38239 ] . |
| 19 | His Homily for the Sunday after Ascension Day , which may date from soon after 1000 , says that a king should protect his people against an attacking army and rule with love and justice , and on the advice of his counsellors. Ælfric seems to have been much influenced by the contemporary continental churchman Abbo of Fleury , who had spent two years at Ramsey in the 980s , for he translated into English not only his Passio of St Edmund of East Anglia , but also the treatise De duodecim abusivis sæculi , written in seventh-century Ireland , and used by Abbo in his Collectio canonum , addressed to the French monarchs Hugh Capet and Robert the Pious . |
| 20 | Their bungalow at Llandudno Junction , which they had spent two years struggling to furnish and which wedding guests should have been visiting next Saturday , was swamped by flood waters on Thursday night . |
| 21 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 22 | A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson , 42 , who had spent two nights in the 500 ft deep vent in Hawaii . |
| 23 | They had spent two nights in bed-and-breakfast accommodation before taking a month 's let on a furnished flat close to Clapham Junction mainline railway station . |
| 24 | After serving as US permanent representative at the UN , Young had spent two terms as mayor of Atlanta , an eight-year period during which the city had been transformed into a magnet for domestic and foreign investment and had become a symbol of the " New South " . |
| 25 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 26 | These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion , many taking unpaid leave from work . |
| 27 | We 've spent two years meeting , talking , going to other meetings , we should get involved in doing something practical . |
| 28 | In Britain at least we have spent two decades arguing about what type of nuclear reactor to build . |
| 29 | We have spent two hours an evening replanting brassica modules that his pheasants and partridges would promptly pull out again . |
| 30 | Graphic Design , Illustration and Animation finalists at Middlesex Poly have spent two years raising money to put on their degree show . |