Example sentences of "have already spend a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nordstrom has already spent a year researching the concept . |
| 2 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 3 | By the time he was 17 , he was a student at Trinity College , Dublin , having already spent a semester or two at Yale , and well on his way to becoming an alcoholic . |
| 4 | It all seems to have lacked sparkle ; Johnson told Mrs Thrale , ‘ Boswell was very angry that the Aberdeen professors would not talk , ’ while Boswell says they were afraid to , and as a consequence he and Johnson round themselves ‘ barren ’ — having already spent a morning in which they had scant conversation with anyone . |
| 5 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |
| 6 | The French and Italians have already spent a week in Scotland looking at developments in work-based learning here , and visits to France , Germany and Italy will follow shortly . |