Example sentences of "[noun prp] spend the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 2 | Mrs Molesworth spent the next four years in France and Germany , but returned to England permanently in 1883 . |
| 3 | The tournament proved to be Gascoigne 's finest hour … he became a superstar overnight … and Jane spent the next 2 years helping him arrange a multi million pound transfer to the Rome club Lazio . |
| 4 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 5 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 6 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 7 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 8 | Lothar and Charles spent the next six weeks in manoeuvre and countermanoeuvre . |
| 9 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |