Example sentences of "spend [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | The Clinton administration is slowly turning its attention to the $14 billion that the US government will spend this year on basic research , conducting a review of six multi-billion-dollar interagency initiatives and convening a panel of senior administrators to draw up programmes for future budgets that correspond to the president 's domestic policy goals . |
| 3 | Accepting that the calculations can take years to complete , he asked : ‘ If we can spend 10 years on an experiment , why ca n't you do these calculations ? ’ |
| 4 | As a result , you will spend many years with your new carpet , and so it is worth taking a little while making the right choice of carpet . |
| 5 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 6 | Later in your life you would spend many years attempting to disprove this thesis . |
| 7 | Minor items may spend many years at the various stages before being settled . |
| 8 | Davies , a former RAF driver , was sentenced to two years in prison while Crook will spend two years in a young offenders institute . |
| 9 | Jeremy Smith , 29 , will spend New Year behind bars after being arrested just 38 days after his release from a six-month prison sentence for a similar offence . |
| 10 | What did we spend last year ? |
| 11 | ‘ How can you spend seven years with someone and not remain friends ? ’ |
| 12 | Beetle grubs may spend seven years boring through wood and extracting nutriment from that most indigestible of materials , cellulose . |
| 13 | He spent eight years as a costume designer for television commercials and now boasts the widest stock of contemporary menswear in Europe at his eponymous clothing-hire company . |
| 14 | The VGA is Britain 's oldest careers development company , founded as a charity in 1954 by Cambridge psychologist Cedric Pyle , who spent eight years developing techniques pioneered by the US military . |
| 15 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 16 | For Alan this has been the culmination of a story which began in 1981 when he bought an old 1965 Sunbeam Tiger and spent eight years rebuilding it — a labour of love . |
| 17 | Leaving nothing to chance , the organisers of the ‘ Greatest Flower Show on Earth ’ spent eight years transforming seventy hectares of polder into a totally controlled floral environment . |
| 18 | In 1790 Rushout visited Italy and spent eight years in Rome between 1792 and 1800 as an attaché to the ambassador to the king of Naples . |
| 19 | Secrett , aged 38 and formerly at the International Institute of Environment and Development , spent eight years with FoE in the 1980s , when he campaigned on wildlife , rain forests and the countryside . |
| 20 | They shone at university , translating Proust and challenging Hegel ; they worked summers in newspapers and spent junior year at archaeological digs in the Dordogne . |
| 21 | The indicator here was simply the amount spent each year on repairs in each school . |
| 22 | The amounts of money involved , however , pale into insignificance when compared with the vast sums spent each year on older areas such as ‘ big physics ’ . |
| 23 | Aerospace companies reckon the number directly employed by the project is around 20,000 — one job for every $100,000 spent each year . |
| 24 | Research and development ; Beecham can afford to spend only £100m ( $170m ) a year on R&D , well below the $670m spent each year by Merck , the world 's largest drug firm . |
| 25 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 26 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |
| 27 | Finubar sailed to L'Anguille in Bretonnia and from there spent fifty years wandering over the continent . |
| 28 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 29 | Sr McLaughlin spent 22 years working in Africa — 10 of them in Zimbabwe . |
| 30 | She turned professional at 15 and spent 2 years on the tennis circuit and is now ranked in the top 5 in Britain . |