Example sentences of "spent just " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employee was an airline pilot employed by a company established in Great Britain , but he spent just over half his flying days outside Great Britain . |
| 2 | The present author , working almost full-time , spent just over five years on a single village ; the result was a book of A4 format ( 11½ × 8 inches ) containing 436 pages of printed text and 62 pages of illustrations — photographs , maps and diagrams . |
| 3 | In 1971 central government spent just £34 million on maintaining roads . |
| 4 | We lined up — I had never seen so many people in a stadium in my life — the gun went and I spent just over twenty embarrassing seconds in Tilli 's slipstream . |
| 5 | Andrew 's job as a Royal Navy helicopter pilot , based in Somerset , meant they spent just 100 days together in their first year and it was a parting that Fergie felt particularly keenly . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Titford , aged 48 , spent just three days in the workhouse during the August of 1826 . |
| 7 | He spent just 100 minutes with her before heading back to Highgrove . |
| 8 | CHARTBUSTING K.W.S. stars Winnie Williams and Chris King have splashed out more than £1 million on new homes … and spent just ONE night in them . |
| 9 | It has been calculated that while Stapledon spent just under half his time before the 1320s in his diocese , once he became treasurer barely a tenth of his time was passed at Exeter ; he relied instead upon the machinery of deputies to maintain his authority and execute his wishes there . |
| 10 | Yeah , its just er I feel you know its , its a waste of your life , you know sitting , I have to drive through the , the necessity to work every day , its an hour of my day spent just behind a wheel when I could be in the train , you know reading or doing something more productive |
| 11 | For example , in 1986 , inner-city north-east Newcastle-upon-Tyne spent 7.43 per head of population per annum on mental health services , while Redbridge , a prosperous outer London suburb , spent just 0.49 per head per annum . |
| 12 | Another writer who is inseparable from the Vietnam war experience is Michael Herr who spent just under a year there from 1967–1968 for Esquire . |
| 13 | Some people think that childminding is an easy job , but if they spent just half a day doing the work she does I am sure they would soon be ready for bed ! |
| 14 | I spent just over an hour with Patterson which , I found out later , turned out to be another first . |
| 15 | Households in Northern Ireland spent just £5 a week on hotels and holidays , less than half the UK average of £11 . |
| 16 | Lucy spent just three days in intensive care before doctors moved her to an ordinary ward at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital . |
| 17 | by the time I spent just |