Example sentences of "spent [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 2 | They found that a large proportion of the children had already spent the greater part of their lives in care . |
| 3 | He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them . |
| 4 | Polybius had spent the greater part of his time explaining to Greeks and Romans why the Romans were bound to win . |
| 5 | I never have properly recalled how I had spent the larger part of my time in Préfleur when Jean-Claude was away . |
| 6 | Balls fizzed into ribs and past noses ( just ) which had earlier spent a happier morning in the sun on the beach . |
| 7 | Warwick International , the TAED products manufacturer , has spent a further 140m on its Mostyn site . |
| 8 | In April a US Defence Department study on " burden sharing " claimed that the USA had spent a larger share of its national income on the military budget in 1988 than virtually all its NATO allies , and cited Japan and Canada for what it called " below par " contributions to Western defence . |