Example sentences of "i spent [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 2 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 3 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 4 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 5 | ‘ I spent two years in a psikhushka , ’ he replied curtly . |
| 6 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , I spent two years in Russia , and I know a little about Siberian Magic . |
| 8 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 9 | I spent two years helping a friend catalogue her husband 's art collection which was hard because he was a very difficult person . |
| 10 | I spent two years in Washington trying to be a surgeon , but I could n't settle in the States . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I spent many years driving in London , when I was stationed there . ’ |
| 12 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 13 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 14 | Ian from Earlsbury , I spent fourteen years in the air force , bull bullying has always gone on but only when soldiers did n't conform . |
| 15 | I spent nine years in Hi-Fi retail and always coached my staff to talk to our customers — their queries , desires and interests were our life blood . |
| 16 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 17 | I myself discovered that I did not have this mystical ability , even though I spent seven years in a Roman Catholic convent , engaged in daily meditation and intensive spiritual exercise . |
| 18 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 19 | It was n't that expensive , either , my childhood , because I spent seven years of it with my mum 's sister in the States . |
| 20 | I spent three years in Vienna as a student . |
| 21 | Remember , I spent three years of my youth there . ’ |
| 22 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 23 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 24 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 25 | But I 'm not sure that 's right I just , I mean I spent three years |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
| 28 | I spent ten years faking it , and hating it , and it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 29 | I spent several years at the Institute before returning to the industry . |
| 30 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |