Example sentences of "spend several year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solid , unsensational book written by a black New York sociologist who spent several years with Hispanic and black teenage cocaine dealers . |
| 2 | Hatry Katz spent several years in a hostel in Leeds : |
| 3 | Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers . |
| 4 | Before he joined Baronsmead he spent several years with a much larger organisation . |
| 5 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 6 | I spent several years at the Institute before returning to the industry . |
| 7 | And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place . |
| 8 | He , knowing of vindictive blood in her family , got her kidnapped and dumped on St Kilda , where she spent several years , with a waiting-maid for company . |
| 9 | Around the turn of the century Nina Boyle spent several years in South Africa , where she worked as a journalist and founded the Women 's Enfranchisement League of Johannesburg . |
| 10 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 11 | Samuel is one of the few informants in this study who was actually born in Jamaica and spent several years there . |
| 12 | Jonathon Love was born with dwarfism , and spent several years in a wheelchair … but now he 's more than a foot taller than nature had intended . |
| 13 | Les , with the active support of his wife Pam , has spent several years listing the 1,000 prisoners , 600 of them RAF and himself among them , who were drafted to Ambon from Java in April 1943 . |
| 14 | He had spent several years in the Sudan and he gave us a tip : ‘ Never take a taxi there , ’ he said , ‘ without fixing the price for the journey before you get in . ’ |
| 15 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 16 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 17 | The woman returner can feel inadequate when she goes back to work , forgetting that she 's spent several years managing and developing human resources at home . |
| 18 | AI Japan had spent several years planning the ICM , and Asia , s hosting of the event was appropriate in view of the organisation 's commitment to developing AI in that region . |
| 19 | Hatta was assisted by another Holland-returned politician , Sutan Sjahrir , who had also spent several years in the Netherlands and become an admirer of the Dutch Socialist movement . |
| 20 | He had spent several years amongst the small Indonesian islands off Singapore . |
| 21 | For instance , the morphologists Mary Chen and Craig Bailey have spent several years studying and measuring the synapses of the Aplysia abdominal ganglion . |
| 22 | George has spent several years working for one of Office Cleaning 's main suppliers prior to joining Rentokil . |
| 23 | He was deeply opposed to fascism and fought with the partisans in the Second War , having spent several years in prison in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 24 | But they were all quite delightful fellows about the same age as most of the airmen pupils , and we seemed to fit in very well with each other ; although most of us had spent several years in the RAF the acting pilot officers had only spent , say , a couple of months . |
| 25 | He trained as a military surveyor , spending several years in Cork , but along with most other draftsmen was placed on half pay when the Corps disbanded in 1817 . |
| 26 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 27 | Women in particular are badly affected , because they tend to have the lowest paid jobs and to spend several years looking after children . |
| 28 | He could not afford like Darwin to spend several years on just getting the barnacles straight . |