Example sentences of "he spend the first [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 . |