Example sentences of "[num] and spend [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He retired from the imperial throne in AD 305 and spent the last nine years of his life in cultivating the soil of his native Dalmatia , constructing the city which still forms the heart of modern Split and , according to Gibbon , enjoying the ‘ most exquisite trout ’ which were bred in ‘ the little stream of the Hyader ’ ( now the Jadro ) . |
| 2 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 3 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 4 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
| 5 | You 'll be hooked on page one and spend the next 567 squirming . |