Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] spent [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 2 | Wu himself spent 19 years incarcerated ( for expressing ‘ counter-revolutionary ’ opinion ) , beaten , tortured and starved before going to the United States as a visiting professor . |
| 3 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 5 | Edvard Radzinsky — an author who spent 25 years researching the Tsar 's life — says : ‘ There is also a huge nostalgia for the monarchy . |
| 6 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 7 | The innocent man who spent two years in an Indian jail . |
| 8 | As a man who spent 17 years in local government I have a sense of shame that yet again there has to be another attempt to reform local government finance , due to the incompetence , extravagance and doctrinaire opposition to competitive tendering of Labour councils . |
| 9 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 10 | Fiona Hunter , our nutritionist ( see below right ) , is a qualified dietician who spent six years working in the NHS . |
| 11 | In 1727 the Synod of Moscow sent a mission which spent ten years amongst the Serbs of Vojvodina and Srem , forging strong links with the Serbian Orthodox clergy and their flocks . |
| 12 | Solid , unsensational book written by a black New York sociologist who spent several years with Hispanic and black teenage cocaine dealers . |
| 13 | Coming as it does from a historian who spent many years as a professional diplomatic officer , this judgment must command respect . |