Example sentences of "spend three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay well she 's just working out how she 'd spend three pound sixty pocket money |
| 2 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 3 | And you 'll spend three months of your life like that . |
| 4 | the butcher , on the corner of Street , the little tiny grocers where you used to go and fe your mother used to go and fetch her groceries , and if she spent three shillings in the shop she was a good customer . |
| 5 | Well you spent three pounds why |
| 6 | In 1972 the US spent three times more on family planning in the Third World than it did on health : ‘ It 's a right-wing plot ’ , some declared . |
| 7 | In 1972 the US spent three times as much on family planning programmes in the Third World as it did on health programmes . |
| 8 | He and his men spent three winters trapped in the ice , but sadly the drift was south as well as west and the ship was released north of Svalbard having reached a point no closer than several hundred miles from the pole . |
| 9 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 10 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 11 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 12 | I just spent three hours last night talking to him and I 've I 've had enough for the week that 's all . |
| 13 | Next morning Wycliffe spent three hours at headquarters dealing with administrative routine : departmental reports , inter-departmental memoranda , overtime schedules , and duty rosters . |
| 14 | Yeah but we spent three hours , Lynne , Malcolm , myself sorting that list out and everybody what was on the stock take |
| 15 | ‘ On Sunday I spent three hours along working on my putting . |
| 16 | He revealed : ‘ On Sunday , I spent three hours alone working on my putting . ’ |
| 17 | A BOUNCER broke into the pub where he worked and spent three hours burning open the safe . |
| 18 | Firefighters spent three hours tackling the blaze , which spread through the roof and into an adjoining property in Pensby Road . |
| 19 | But first , but when we first came here I spent three hours on a Sunday morning , and I only did that area where you play football . |
| 20 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 21 | Before yesterday 's operation she spent three days in a deep coma as a result of liver failure . |
| 22 | ECHO FROM THE PAST In 1980 Marlies and I spent three days travelling with Senator Edward Kennedy in his motorcade during the presidential primary campaign . |
| 23 | At Loreto , we spent three days exploring the network of muddy paths through the forest around the village , crossing small streams on logs and one larger river on a suspension bridge which consisted of four rusting steel cables and a few loose planks . |
| 24 | Griffin spent three days in jail after he refused to give a breath sample . |
| 25 | He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment , and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre . |
| 26 | Griffin , 27 , whose sister Tatum is married to John McEnroe , spent three days in a cell before Ryan bailed him . |
| 27 | The Mirror spent three days with these innocent hostages of war … |
| 28 | Martine was a middle-aged married woman , her husband a banker who spent three days of every week in Luxembourg , leaving her time to philander . |
| 29 | This failed and I spent three days in a state of constant terror before my ( surprisingly ! ) safe arrival in Ladakh . |
| 30 | I spent three days in Holloway on remand . |