Example sentences of "spent long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many such wagons spent long periods hidden away in marshalling yards or being used as storage containers on customers ' premises , practices which the business-led Railfreight sector was understandably keen to eradicate . |
| 2 | During the period of his studies , he was laid low by tuberculosis , and spent long periods in the sanatorium undergoing treatment . |
| 3 | After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 . |
| 4 | He trained as a painter in Vienna , spent long periods in Russia and France and became one of Hungary 's leading Romantic painters and illustrators . |
| 5 | Despite all this external activity he spent long periods of time in his diocese , active in every facet of ecclesiastical administration , as is revealed by his register , the first to survive for the diocese of Winchester . |
| 6 | The youth team , all drawn from non-rugby playing schools , improved greatly after half-time and spent long periods pressing on the schools ' line . |
| 7 | Inevitably I spent long periods sitting in the staff room waiting for staff to find time for an interview . |
| 8 | Eve and Benny spent long hours trying to work out what this could mean . |
| 9 | She was often bored and spent long hours watching television . |
| 10 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 11 | We spent long hours in stationary trains in railway-sidings , in grey towns under greyer skies . |
| 12 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 13 | Ingrid and other loyal friends spent long hours burning the midnight oil with her when it came to the final typing . |
| 14 | David and his pals spent long summer days at the local swimming pool and they were out to impress the girls . |
| 15 | Men who had formed associations to go hill-walking , cycling , even mountaineering , clutching pamphlets like Initial Efforts on the Boulder Face , or Coping with Crevices , and spent long days toiling up braes and free-wheeling down glens , now had a wage to earn . |
| 16 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 17 | Those MPs who succumbed to the pressures of Party democracy brought their golf clubs with them and spent long days on the sandy links of Southport and elsewhere , returning to their hotels in the evening to take part in an entertainment such as the Agents ' dinner and dance . |
| 18 | For planning , we spent long evenings poring over maps . |