Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] spend the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhiannon Petts weighed just one pound three ounces at birth and had to spend the first nine months of her life in hospital . |
| 2 | It was where Diana was born and had spent the first fourteen years of her life . |
| 3 | She lived in the house where my mother had been born and had spent the first seventeen years of her life , up until the time she was married . |
| 4 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 5 | A substitute had been required , therefore , in haste — and Daniel , who had never reached France or Italy after all but had spent the last two years at the London office of the Chartist Northern Star , had seemed as good a choice as any . |