Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] spend [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition the broadcasters envisaged spending some £250,000 on coverage of committees . |
| 2 | Yet to win the big audiences that would attract advertising , the companies had to spend large sums on attractive programmes . |
| 3 | Police officers had spent several weeks scanning videos of their previous encounters to identify trouble makers . |
| 4 | The passengers had spent six hours stuck without explanation in Winnipeg . |
| 5 | In the years prior to the Second World War , a small group of pioneers had spent long periods exploring the Libyan desert in vehicles . |
| 6 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 7 | Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) . |
| 8 | Fields had spent some months , and a modest amount of money , examining the feasibility of a new transatlantic airline ; he had approached several key figures who had been with Laker Airways and solicited their interest ; he had begun to make enquiries about purchasing an aircraft . |
| 9 | Alan Watkins of the Observer had spent August and September as a guest in Great Houses ; Michael Jones of The Sunday Times had spent six weeks in Tuscany avoiding , whenever he could , the Gilmours , Jenkinses and Mortimers ; Peter Riddell of The Times , Hugo Young , Julia Langdon , Simon Heffer , Sir Robin Day-they were all in Brighton on expenses , refreshed and ready for the fray . |
| 10 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 11 | These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion , many taking unpaid leave from work . |