Example sentences of "spent the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 2 | Many of the families spent the first night huddled together in the open but tradition maintains that no one suffered as much as a common cold . |
| 3 | In spite of his desire for Kiku , he spent the first night in Zurachina 's yurt . |
| 4 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 5 | The Huddersfield party arrived in Paris in the early morning after a journey of nearly twenty-four hours by train and boat , and spent the first day sightseeing . |
| 6 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 7 | We spent the first day getting over the long flight ( though with only three hours time difference there was no appreciable jet-lag ) and having a look round the town . |
| 8 | ‘ What sort of a day have you had ? ’ she asked him lightly , and spent the first course and half of the second in hearing how he did n't think he was giving so much concentration to his job as he should just lately . |
| 9 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 10 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 11 | To show ‘ solidarity with the poor ’ , and hoping , politely , to shame the Americans into faster delivery , President Guillermo Endara spent the first half of March fasting in Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 12 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |
| 13 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 14 | Fifteen Associates , plus two from each of the Irish and Scottish Institutes , travelled to Frankfurt , where they spent the first week of the ninth German Banking Study Tour . |
| 15 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 16 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |