Example sentences of "spend [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we had five hundred years on earth we could say , ‘ OK , I 'll spend the first hundred years doing nothing in particular , the next hundred learning about life , the next hundred building a relationship , the next hundred working and my last hundred in leisure . ’ |
| 2 | Transfer to the Hotel Cataract in Aswan , where you will spend the next four nights . |
| 3 | The summit will spend the next four days discussing issues ranging from the division of Cyprus to the war in Bosnia . |
| 4 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 5 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |
| 6 | Poor France , where the Kiwis will spend the next three weeks , are now likely to suffer the consequences of this improvement . |
| 7 | If Pete kept interrupting him , he could spend the next three years never finishing a sentence . |
| 8 | For example , he 'll say something like , ‘ Well , I would n't wan na spend the last two minutes of my life listening to that lick ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |
| 10 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 11 | These professional persuaders will spend an estimated two million pounds to bend the ears of the governing party . |
| 12 | They spent the remaining thirty minutes of the game yelling , ‘ Get home , you convict trash ! ’ |
| 13 | The success of his three operas for Italy , Artaserse ( 1760 ) , Catone in Utica ( 1761 ) , and Alessandro nell' Indie ( 1762 ) , prompted an invitation to compose two works for the King 's Theatre , London , and in 1762 Bach travelled to London , where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life as the dominant musical figure in the city , thereby earning the sobriquet ‘ the London Bach ’ . |
| 14 | Cumming ( he changed his name in 1889 after marriage ) spent the early 1890s largely as a country gentleman on his second wife 's Morayshire estate . |
| 15 | In 1945 he returned to Durham , graduated as a BA in 1948 , and spent the following two years reading theology at Bishop 's College , Cheshunt , Hertfordshire . |
| 16 | At six weeks I was brought back to Britain , and spent the following 24 years here . |
| 17 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 18 | So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I spent the first nineteen years of my life in England . |
| 20 | Alan Milburn , it transpires , spent the first 11 years of his existence in Tow Law , though his vowels belong North Tyneside now . |
| 21 | I spent the first eighteen months working in all the factory departments , so I started with a good knowledge of precisely how the product was made and did all the jobs that then existed in the production of confectionery . |
| 22 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 23 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 24 | Pakenham , born of a Catholic mother and Protestant father in Dublin , spent the first nine years of his life in a children 's home , his mother dying shortly after his birth . |
| 25 | They spent the first ten minutes talking about Thomas Hardy , because Roger came from Dorset , and then Mr Baker read passages from the Kingman Report , which was still unpublished , and asked if Roger agreed . |
| 26 | Firbank spent the first ten years of his life at his family 's new home , The Coopers , Chislehurst — a village whose connections with the exiled Empress Eugénie may have influenced his enduring fascination with both royalty and Catholicism . |
| 27 | Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 . |
| 28 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 29 | She spent the first three months of 1814 in bed . |
| 30 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |