Example sentences of "spent ten year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am nineteen years old and at college in rural Devon , away from friends and family and the city where I spent ten years of my life . |
| 2 | Murrells spent ten years in the reserve , kept there for the last few years against his will because Mitchell considered him indispensable . |
| 3 | From school , Martin spent ten years learning his trade with Yorkshire Light Aircraft at Leeds/Bradford Airport before joining Bristow Helicopters and travelling variously to Nigeria and then Abu Dhabi and Doha . |
| 4 | Thus , I spent ten years working for Other Music Papers , never daring to aim for The Big One , editing Record Mirror and blooding young pups like Stuart Bailie and Roger Morton for greater things . |
| 5 | Moreover , many of the workers who spent ten years restoring the machine are now actively involved with the volunteer-run SDR or other preserved railways in the South West , so the return home is doubly welcome . |
| 6 | In 1727 the Synod of Moscow sent a mission which spent ten years amongst the Serbs of Vojvodina and Srem , forging strong links with the Serbian Orthodox clergy and their flocks . |
| 7 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 8 | I spent ten years faking it , and hating it , and it did n't get me anywhere . |
| 9 | What 's more , he spent ten years and more living in Berlin , speaks the lingo literally like a native , and after Berlin — he came out when the show blew up — he went to Oslo . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Masters who has a young son , spent ten years teaching History , but is now a Student Counsellor . |
| 11 | in Community Medicine at Manchester , spent nine years lecturing , then moved to become Secretary of the Community Health Council for Ealing and Southall , and then spent ten years working for Leeds City Council in Planning and Development in the Social Services . |
| 12 | Rosentiel 's fourth wife Susan spent ten years trying to divorce him , a decade of singular bitterness , involving his perjury and attempts to jail her . |