Example sentences of "spend four year " in BNC.
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| 1 | MV I spent four years at university , from 1949 until 1953 . |
| 2 | Christina then became a self-employed economist-researcher after which she spent four years as the economics research officer for a major political party . |
| 3 | Bill and Rita had always wanted a Victorian house — they used to live in a 1930s semi and spent four years trying to make it look Victorian . |
| 4 | Researchers from the influential Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment spent FOUR YEARS examining case histories of child deaths in the area and comparing them with the rest of the country . |
| 5 | Alison Wardley , 24 , spent four years looking after little princesses Bea and Eugenie . |
| 6 | After his retirement as secretary of the English Association in 1950 he spent four years in India , encouraging the growth of youth hostels in that country , and subsequently paid two extended visits to Africa for the same purpose . |
| 7 | He spent four years at a Liverpool shipping house and then in 1861 obtained a clerical post at Hutchinson 's alkali works in Widnes . |
| 8 | He and Rivers then spent four years mapping the recovery of sensory perception in Head 's arm . |
| 9 | Mr Bland spent four years in a persistent vegetative state after his brain was starved of oxygen in the crush at the Hillsborough football ground in Sheffield in which more than 90 people died in 1989 . |
| 10 | Maritz spent four years at university in San Diego . |
| 11 | A Russian representative stayed for about a year in Stockholm in 1635 – 36 , and another spent four years in western Europe , mainly in the Dutch republic , in the early 1660s ; but both of these were sent for mainly commercial purposes and the second was an Englishman long resident in Russia . |
| 12 | A committed member of the circle of reformers which centred on the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich , he spent four years in the second half of the 1850s investigating the financial procedures of various west European countries and the United States . |
| 13 | He then spent four years in London and the South-East , including a spell at the prestigious Gravetithe Manor in East Grinstead . |
| 14 | Fr Cunningham then spent four years at Cambridge University and returned to teach in Hartlepool . |
| 15 | I 'd like to work in photography now instead of you know erm going to college and spending four years at college . |
| 16 | Mr Osman , 58 , a banker , has spent four years in Pentonville Prison , fighting extradition to Hong Kong on fraud charges . |
| 17 | Against Darwin 's five years in Beagle , Wallace had spent four years exploring the Amazon basin , followed by eight years , largely alone , travelling throughout the Indonesian islands expressly seeking a solution to the evolutionary divergence of species . |
| 18 | I 've spent four years making very certain I do n't care . |
| 19 | For example , my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary mentioned a Ugandan who came here from Italy , where he had spent four years . |
| 20 | At their age she had already spent four years working in her uncle 's shop . |
| 21 | JOHN MAJOR is willing to meet the author Salman Rushdie , who has spent four years under a fatwa assassination incitement by Iranian fundamentalists . |
| 22 | Do they take a blindfold and a pin into the booth with them , and then spend four years boasting that nobody had better take their support for granted if they want to get re-elected ? |