Example sentences of "spent [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent eight years as a costume designer for television commercials and now boasts the widest stock of contemporary menswear in Europe at his eponymous clothing-hire company . |
| 2 | The VGA is Britain 's oldest careers development company , founded as a charity in 1954 by Cambridge psychologist Cedric Pyle , who spent eight years developing techniques pioneered by the US military . |
| 3 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 4 | For Alan this has been the culmination of a story which began in 1981 when he bought an old 1965 Sunbeam Tiger and spent eight years rebuilding it — a labour of love . |
| 5 | Leaving nothing to chance , the organisers of the ‘ Greatest Flower Show on Earth ’ spent eight years transforming seventy hectares of polder into a totally controlled floral environment . |
| 6 | In 1790 Rushout visited Italy and spent eight years in Rome between 1792 and 1800 as an attaché to the ambassador to the king of Naples . |
| 7 | Secrett , aged 38 and formerly at the International Institute of Environment and Development , spent eight years with FoE in the 1980s , when he campaigned on wildlife , rain forests and the countryside . |
| 8 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |
| 9 | Finubar sailed to L'Anguille in Bretonnia and from there spent fifty years wandering over the continent . |
| 10 | He then spent eleven years in Leeds , first as curate at St Peter 's ( 1932–8 ) , during which he obtained an MA in the history and philosophy of religion and in Chinese studies at Leeds University , then as vicar of St Matthew 's , Holbeck . |
| 11 | Sr McLaughlin spent 22 years working in Africa — 10 of them in Zimbabwe . |
| 12 | She turned professional at 15 and spent 2 years on the tennis circuit and is now ranked in the top 5 in Britain . |
| 13 | Bill Clinton spent 2 years at Oxford from 1968 to 1970 . |
| 14 | She joined Nationwide in 1972 and spent 12 years in the studio . |
| 15 | ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’ |
| 16 | You 've been married , divorced , spent 12 years apart , and then married again . |
| 17 | To this end , a protocol specialist — Diana Makgill , who spent 30 years in the Foreign Office — has been appointed vice-president of the college . |
| 18 | He spent 30 years of his career in the main machine shop at Sellafield , with a short break of seven years in the graphite shop . |
| 19 | Drs Anthony and Maggie Barker , average age 70 years , spent 30 years building up a medical service in rural South Africa . |
| 20 | Bogdan Baltazar , a Romanian merchant banking adviser , spent 10 years in prison under Ceaucescu , he says . |
| 21 | Henry , who spent 10 years as a professional in Scottish league cricket and played for Scotland in the Benson and Hedges Cup , turned his back on other coloured South African cricketers in 1976 . |
| 22 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 23 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 24 | Kristy , of Park Road , Barnston , was born in Jamaica and spent 10 years in Malawi before coming to Britain . |
| 25 | The Observer , for instance , spent six years in the ownership of the Atlantic Richfield oil company of California . |
| 26 | Before becoming a coastguard officer , Mr Baker spent six years seeing much of the world as a radio operator in the Merchant Navy . |
| 27 | Bought up Catholic Irish in New South Wales , he spent six years in a seminary before concluding he did not want to be a priest . |
| 28 | Fiona Hunter , our nutritionist ( see below right ) , is a qualified dietician who spent six years working in the NHS . |
| 29 | The family spent six years in Mauritius , 1837–1843 , and then settled in Ireland , at Fahan . |
| 30 | One of Bremner 's boys , Grayson spent six years at Leeds United before a £35,000 move to Leicester City in March . |