Example sentences of "had [vb pp] much of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early October 1990 the government attempted to restore confidence by announcing tougher regulations to limit the scope of the sort of corporate flamboyance which had characterized much of the 1980s . |
| 2 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |
| 3 | He looked around the room where she had spent much of the last few years . |
| 4 | Senghor himself had spent much of the 1930s after graduating from university as a teacher and well known poet in France . |
| 5 | Her eyes felt heavy , she had worked much of the previous night and most of the day to have the shoes for the theatre people ready in time . |
| 6 | Within the antisocialist camp Liberalism occupied a subordinate position , forfeiting a tradition of Radical progressivism that had informed much of the alternative municipal discourse during the 1890s , and leading to its extinction as a force in local politics . |