Example sentences of "spent [pos pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother 's poor health made sea air desirable and she spent her early years on the Isle of Man . |
| 2 | His widow , Jane , spent her last years — until 1789 — at Chiswick , attending the parish church of St. Nicholas , and living on a pension from the Royal Academy , as requested by the King . |
| 3 | The very large majority of our sample , having been born between about 1885 and 1895 were in that special , and it might be said tragic , generation who were young adults during the Great War , then spent their middle years living through the Depression and the Second World War . |
| 4 | Like many such people he spent his tender years caddying . |
| 5 | Cooper panicked , sold the château , and spent his remaining years in two small apartments in Monte Carlo , which were too small for the collection , part of which was sold . |
| 6 | Abernathy attempted unsuccessfully to secure a Democratic nomination to the House of Representatives in 1978 , and thereafter spent his remaining years as pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta . |
| 7 | He spent his early years in training at Southampton General Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital , Reading . |
| 8 | 17th century , red brick , gabled house with Tudor origins , where General Wolfe , one of England 's greatest soldiers , spent his early years . |
| 9 | Vernage spent his early years in a succession of children 's homes . |
| 10 | ‘ I would seriously think about coming here for a longer stay if the right opportunity arose , but I do have a lot going for me back home , ’ said Lloyd , who spent his early years in Epping . |
| 11 | It seems reasonable to suppose that John was born and spent his early years in Grimston , Norfolk , where his family was recorded as having an estate in 1664 , but there is no record of his educational background . |
| 12 | Mr Entwistle spent his early years working in the Coventry laboratories , mainly on viscose development . |
| 13 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 14 | Rembrandt spent his last years in Amsterdam and the building in which he died now houses the Rembrandt House Museum . |
| 15 | From 1865 to 1871 he lived on the estates he had inherited in Scotland , and then spent his last years at Cambridge . |
| 16 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 17 | Ron Taylor spent his last years living in appalling conditions . |
| 18 | He then retired to a small property near Ryde on the Isle of Wight , where he spent his later years carrying out improvements to the grounds and where he died 14 February 1853 . |
| 19 | A novel way for you to explore the area where Cook spent his formative years . |
| 20 | Arthur Whitten-Brown , the navigator , who by a twist of fate spent his formative years living in Chorlton , Manchester , selected and installed all the instruments . |