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Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] spent [art] last [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing
2	It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy .
3	Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom .
4	The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall .
5	The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall .
6	Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism .
7	Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book .
8	USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues .
9	With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens .
10	Colette had spent the last fifteen years taming Bernard .
11	Reportedly UI has spent the last six months explaining its vision to these companies ( UX No 391 ) .
12	Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work .