Example sentences of "spent a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 So then I spent a few hours quietly relaxing , until finally Posi reached the rendezvous point , reduced speed and gave the ’ spacecraft sighted ’ warning .
2 After the atmosphere that sparked between them whenever they spent a few hours together … !
3 I spent a few hours at house in Delhi , before leaving on Sunday 28th November to catch the 03.45 flight to London .
4 Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly .
5 After an hour inside the school , all four spent a few minutes in a room of their own before Charles and Diana said goodbye to their sons .
6 Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women .
7 Rain spent a few minutes sympathizing with the psychic 's frustrations and then suggested that she try Maureen again , but with a specific request for a set of keys .
8 He spent a few minutes making polite , nondescript conversation , then he proceeded to devote the remainder of the meal to Alyssia .
9 My reason is that George spent a few minutes with Lennie , comforting and making him a happy man by reminding him of his dreams , before sending him off to find his final dream in heaven .
10 I spent a few moments in thought .
11 Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them .
12 Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain .
13 The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect .
14 Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall .
15 Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean .
16 We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad .
17 As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms .
18 After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage .
19 In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory .
20 ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres .
21 They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 .
22 Cheyney passed from Sandhurst into the army , buying a commission in a regiment which was ordered to India , where he spent a few years in inactive service .
23 I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London .
24 On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police .
25 They all spent a few weeks with me , a manufacturing engineer , to set objectives , to create a manufacturing improvement strategy and policies and then to drive them .
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