Example sentences of "spent much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 2 | The 25-year-old from New Orleans spent much of the season in the shadow of Kevin Mitchell , the man he followed in the Giants ' batting line-up and the leader in home runs and RBIs in the majors . |
| 3 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 4 | Mr Taylor and Rick Parry , the Premier League chief executive , who spent much of the weekend trying to thrash out an agreement on the telephone , are likely to meet again in the next 48 hours . |
| 5 | Drawn to India by her spiritual and political interests , she spent much of the rest of her life there . |
| 6 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 7 | In fact MI5 was wasting its time because Khrushchev and Bulganin were well aware of this and spent much of the time in their suite holding nonsensical conversations that appeared to include tantalising references to important matters but were in reality pure rubbish . |
| 8 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 9 | Dawn 's parents learned of the accident some three hours later , went immediately to the hospital , and spent much of the rest of the night waiting for information . |
| 10 | His mother insists that John spent much of the time at the house of his aunt Kay ( wife of Grace 's brother Errol , then a prisoner-of-war ) , or in the company of her children , who came to use the swimming pool attached to the flats where Herbert and John lived , so that John was never left to the care of black servants . |
| 11 | In the week since she had left he had slept poorly and spent much of the night pacing around the house . |
| 12 | They spent much of the war running a hostel in North Kensington . |
| 13 | Not an academic himself , Braverman began his working life as an apprentice coppersmith and spent much of the rest of it in socialist journalism and in publishing . |
| 14 | BELOW Baden , where Constanze Mozart spent much of the years 1789–91 for the sake of her health . |
| 15 | They spent much of the winter , from Palm Sunday until late August , in the centre of a chilly and miserable bay at what is now Puerto San Julián — a winter made doubly wretched by an appalling mutiny and the consequent executions and maroonings that Magellan ordered ; by the stranding and wrecking of the Santiago , which the Captain-General had sent on a sounding expedition ; and by the realization of the dreadful damage done to the remaining ships by the constant chomping and feasting of those plank-gourmets of the seas , the teredo worms . |
| 16 | How , for example , does one categorize the piety of an individual like the Restoration diarist , Samuel Pepys , who frequently attended several churches on a Sunday , but spent much of the time surveying the attractive women in the congregation ; and who regularly supervised the daily prayers of his household , but often in a state of extreme inebriation ? |
| 17 | He spent much of the time swerving and cursing other drivers . |
| 18 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 19 | Partly because she spent much of the day alone in the house painting , she welcomed company in the evenings and would press Rodrigo into more visits to Soho than he wished to make . |
| 20 | Tom and Brian spent much of the time reading . |
| 21 | Toby was in fact if not in name in charge of the twenty-seven boarders at Burleigh , and he spent much of the day with nothing to do . |
| 22 | Mainly regarded as a victim of McCarthyism amongst his London associates , he had , in reality , spent much of the early 1950s as a nark for the House UnAmerican Activities Committee . |
| 23 | The WEU spent much of the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991 in redefining its role and its aspirations in the light of the generally decreasing level of superpower tensions , and particularly in the light of the United States ' plans to withdraw a large proportion of its troops from NATO bases in Europe . |
| 24 | According to the version of the letter published in Panorama , owned by socialist media baron Silvio Berlusconi , Togliatti , who spent much of the Second World War in Moscow , had expressed the view that the deaths of the prisoners would help to turn the Italian people against fascism . |
| 25 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 26 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 27 | In Langbaurgh , he spent much of the bleak winter at South Gare , a blustery headland that juts into the North Sea not far from the resort of Redcar . |