Example sentences of "that [pers pn] spend [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 2 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 3 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 4 | For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry . |
| 5 | His grandmother , the Countess of Airlie , was such a close friend of the Queen 's grandmother , Queen Mary , that she spent fifty years as a lady-in-waiting . |