Example sentences of "have spent the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 2 | The Scottish Gallery has an exhibition of paintings by Roderick Carmichael , an Edinburgh-born artist who has spent the last 10 years in Australia . |
| 3 | Mr Rawlins , 38 , has spent the past seven years working with the Lloyd 's insurance market and was once personal assistant to the first chief executive of that community , Ian Hay Davison . |
| 4 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 5 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 6 | Both the Mucker shrine and its indignant notice are the work of Kavanagh 's younger brother , Dr Peter Kavanagh , now 73 , one-time Professor of Poetry at Wisconsin University , who has spent the past 25 years in New York promoting and publishing Patrick 's work . |
| 7 | The troubled defence and electronics group has spent the week in talks a clutch of potential bidders . |
| 8 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 9 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 10 | VIA also has to pay heavily to use the tracks and it is almost universally agreed that CP in particular has spent the last 12 years over-charging and trying to find ways of clearing the passenger trains from the path of its lucrative freights . |
| 11 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 12 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 13 | Kylie has felt the pace and has spent the past 24 hours in bed with a stomach upset . |
| 14 | But the programme — accused by parents and staff of misrepresenting Summerhill — has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of Shinichiro Hori , the 48-year-old professor of elementary education at Osaka University who has spent the past eight years planning and raising money to open Kinokuni . |
| 15 | An object is still the same object , is it not , whether it has spent the past 300 years on a mantelpiece or on the floor of the sea ? |
| 16 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 17 | She has spent the last 18 months researching and writing the kind of cookbook which brings all the old fun and the sheer sensual pleasure back into cooking — and eating . |
| 18 | First across the threshold was longest serving resident 78-year-old Nellie Everett who has spent the past 16 years at Kingsley Ward . |
| 19 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 20 | The NCCED and the other organisations listed on pages 145–7 offer support and counselling for a woman who has spent the whole of her life caring for parents or a relative who has died . |
| 21 | As chairman of the Pitcairn Island Fund , he believes that £2 million would be sufficient to buy Pitcairn a reasonably healthy , self-sufficient future , and he has spent the past two years trying , unsuccessfully , to persuade the British government to make some contribution . |
| 22 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
| 23 | Nineteen-year-old Alan Parratt and his friend Paul Wilkins , 23 , has spent the evening drinking at the Bull Inn at Bentley without incident . |
| 24 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
| 25 | Spry , who has spent the duration of the interview waiting for his chicken and pineapple pizza to arrive , flicks through a copy of Vogue Collection . |
| 26 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 27 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 28 | He is also the latest discovery of British psychologist Dr Neil O'Connor , the world 's foremost expert on savants and the man who has spent the past ten years helping to unlock the genius trapped within their flawed minds . |
| 29 | He lost his hair through chemotherapy treatment and has spent the time since recovering from the disease , which spread to his lungs . |
| 30 | Souness has spent the summer recuperating and renovating his house at Mere , Cheshire . |