Example sentences of "[be] spend the [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 2 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 5 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 6 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 7 | Mr Ashdown is to spend the last four days of the campaign stressing the need for a lasting coalition to rescue the country from economic and political crisis . |
| 8 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 9 | Wilcock was to spend the next thirty years attempting to put it into practice . |