Example sentences of "[noun] spent the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 2 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 3 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 4 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 5 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 6 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 7 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |