Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] spend [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I spent two years in the mother and baby home , then , and decided that if I was going to stay in social work , then I would erm be better a able to help people if I could do it from the theoretical background as well as the feeling erm background er of my own my own personal feelings . |
| 2 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 3 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 4 | Then I spent three years there and it was only three weeks after I 'd left that I was offered the part of Russell in Butterflies . |
| 5 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 6 | He , knowing of vindictive blood in her family , got her kidnapped and dumped on St Kilda , where she spent several years , with a waiting-maid for company . |
| 7 | He went on to Italy , where he spent two years in the study of medicine at Padua University . |
| 8 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 9 | ‘ So , you see , I have very strong links with the fashion business — namely my grandfather and the sweat-shop where he spent thirty years of his life . |
| 10 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |