Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] spent [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I got on a G P scheme in Crawley in Sussex and I spent three years there . |
| 2 | Clearly , the man who had overthrown the Somoza dictatorship ten years earlier , who first killed a man when he was in his mid-teens , and who spent seven years in jail , was getting advice from a higher source . |
| 3 | Certainly Frankenstein had gone away to study — to Ingoldstadt , I now knew — and there spent some years researching into the nature of life . |
| 4 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 5 | He has served for 30 years as the local church warden and he spent 42 years as treasurer of the local branch of the Royal British Legion . |
| 6 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |