Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the nineteen-twenties she spent some time in London , and after her second husband , Maurice Platner , died in 1929 she moved to Johannesburg , where she died in 1932 . |
| 2 | Throughout 1969 I spent some time each month visiting schools , and attending yet more meetings in Curzon Street . |
| 3 | After she retired from the headship of her department in 1920 she gave much time to various women 's groups and to societies for the promotion of women 's interests . |
| 4 | From 1883 he spent much time abroad , especially in areas of active volcanoes . |
| 5 | In 1950 the USA produced seven times as many manufactures as Germany and over 20 times as many as Japan ; in 1953 it exported five times as many manufactures as Germany and 17 times as many as Japan . |
| 6 | Modigliani disliked writing letters , but during the winter of 1919 he wrote several times to Zborowski in Paris on practical matters , asking urgently for money and canvases , thanking Zbo for sending money and , rather touchingly , explaining his progress or the lack of it to his dealer . |