Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [pers pn] spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 2 | During the six years he spent as the AAT 's Public Relations Officer , their membership rose from 30,000 to 100,000 . |
| 3 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 4 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 5 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |