Example sentences of "[noun sg] has spend the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Coltart has spent the last year productively , though , playing on the Swedish Golf Tour . |
2 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
3 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
4 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
5 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
6 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |