Example sentences of "have spend years " in BNC.
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| 1 | CUSTODIAN OF THE COLUMBINE , ALIAS AQUILEGIA , JOHN DRAKE HAS SPENT YEARS RESEARCHING AND EXCHANGING SEEDS . |
| 2 | There is nothing more dispiriting , he says , than seeing a young doctor who has spent years on a project and has no thesis to show at the end of it because the project was ill-considered and ill-supervised . |
| 3 | She is a natural historian who has spent years researching and collecting information about Baldersdale and the surrounding area , delivering lectures to local societies and writing for Teesdale publications . |
| 4 | ‘ I was obsessed with cleaning ’ The story of Diane White who has spent years fighting her compulsion . |
| 5 | Banker Alan Clarke , who has spent years working in America , says : ‘ The American women I have been out with have always been successful and good-looking but they do n't have the ability to laugh at themselves . |
| 6 | SNI has spent years attempting to unify conflicting technology inherited when Siemens AG , SNI 's parent company , fused its Data and Information Systems Group with Nixdorf Computer AG . |
| 7 | The proprietor has spent years building up a remarkable cellar of aged Riojas , which lie side by side with the best that Burgundy and Bordeaux have to offer . |
| 8 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 9 | Your Fantails , Lionheads , Orandas ( and the others such as Celestial Eye , Bubble Eye , Shubunkin , and Comet ) are all the same species , but man has spent years and years of time and effort to fix the breed . |
| 10 | He 'd spent years tied to drum machines and Portostudios , crafting songwriting ideas but without finding the perfect format of presentation . |
| 11 | Having spent years fighting them , Karl would recognise a Russian soldier . |
| 12 | Having spent years ensuring that mounts are cut accurately , and working with the straight lines of frames , I find straight lines just as pleasing in designs as curves , and I think an idea like this makes a pleasant change from the more popular floral compositions . |
| 13 | Having spent years in prison under the old régime , years that had taken their toll and made him look well over seventy , he got up every morning now , threw open the windows of his apartment , and breathed in ‘ the good clean air of freedom ’ . |
| 14 | Many of the speakers came from a local government background , having spent years in social services or as councillors . |
| 15 | Having spent years attacking her as the author of awful policies , it is not credible to claim now that her departure hardly matters . |
| 16 | On the field he was extremely competent , having spent years in the forward line of St Dodimeads Choirboys XI and the Billy Graham Crusade . |
| 17 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 18 | In an interview to promote his book , Morgan acknowledged that he had spent years ‘ under the influence of cocaine , planning the strategic degradation of women ’ . |
| 19 | A retired Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Museum had spent years on the task . |
| 20 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 21 | ‘ He had spent years building a team he could trust to do anything in his absence . |
| 22 | The younger drivers were obviously under heavy pressure from their teams : they had spent years getting into the sport and they were being threatened with dismissal . |
| 23 | Almost every piece of furniture was missing , including 1930s art deco items she had spent years collecting . |
| 24 | Reagan had no record to defend and had spent years perfecting the skills required to project an effective personal image . |
| 25 | Many see the Basquiat retrospective as a referendum on the Whitney Museum 's curatorial standards , but just a month before the show was to open at the Whitney , a New York weekly reported that the museum had sought to fire Richard Marshall , the show 's curator , who had spent years preparing the project with Gerard Basquiat and the Robert Miller Gallery . |
| 26 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 27 | What might be forgotten is that Land had spent years in the laboratory perfecting the polarization process , schooling his scientific and inventive abilities , practising and repeating , learning his craft . |
| 28 | The cabin itself was full of mile-savers and trip-of-a-lifetime artists , milky old Mormons whose vast progeny had spent years in the air to defray this last great stretching of the wings . |
| 29 | It was a palatable version of the truth , and one she had spent years working at believing . |
| 30 | He summoned up from the past the accent he had spent years discarding and bowed to the two men . |