Example sentences of "he spent the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 2 | That he has managed to carve out such a successful photographic career for himself is extraordinary when you consider that he spent the first 12 years of his working life as a bricklayer . |
| 3 | He spent the first 12 months of his Hobart House reign in obscurity , in spite of repeated leaked reports suggesting the number of British mines was set to tumble to around a dozen . |
| 4 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 5 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 6 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 7 | He spent the next five years in exile at the court of the Scottish king , Malcolm ( recte Edgar , q.v. ) , and with an unnamed Welsh bishop . |
| 8 | He spent the next six months travelling . |
| 9 | By this time , as a man of modest but independent means , he spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 10 | He spent the next twenty-seven years at Elmswell , overseeing his farms and estate , building a new house in the 1630s , and only occasionally visiting places out of the district . |
| 11 | He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties . |
| 12 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 13 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 14 | He spent the next 40 minutes telling MPs how he plans to reverse the appalling situation . |
| 15 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 16 | His new wife was a Parisian and he spent the last eight years of his life in Paris , where he continued to practise until he died in 1843 at the age of eighty-eight . |
| 17 | Of these the most conservative was Porta , who as late as 1578 could publish an old-fashioned cantus firmus Mass on the Josquin subject ‘ La sol fa re mi ’ and who corresponded with Carlo Borromeo ; on the other hand , his Magnificat for the Franciscan Chapter at Bologna was in 24 parts and we know that he frequently employed trombones , cornetts , violins , and portative organs as well as the large ones at San Antonio , Padua , where he spent the last six years of his life . |
| 18 | He spent the last five years of his RAF career at Brize Norton , five miles from his Witney home . |
| 19 | He spent the last five months of his life writing his fourth novel , La Soiree a Somosierra , and reflecting on the outcome of his departure from the party , only vaguely aware of the incipient communist campaign to blacken his name . |
| 20 | He spent the last five years with Austin Knight in Newcastle , the last six months as agency director . |
| 21 | He spent the last two years of the war in France as a major with Australian Field Ambulance units . |
| 22 | The most enthusiastic advocate of ‘ Gregorian ’ liberty during these years was Hugh , bishop of Die and later archbishop of Lyons , whom Anselm first met on his way to Rome in 1097 , and with whom he spent the last eighteen months of his exile from May 1099 to August 1100 . |