Example sentences of "spent [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 2 | With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens . |
| 3 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 5 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 6 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 7 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 8 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 9 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 10 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
| 11 | Possibly because of this widespread feeling that relationships between health and social services were good , planning for April 1993 got left behind , and the city has spent the past few months frantically catching up . |
| 12 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 13 | She seemed to have spent the past few years running away . |
| 14 | The local overlords , the magnates of the neighbourhood , who had spent a frenzied few weeks petitioning and being petitioned by their would-be superiors , had not been invited and therefore sat at home , drinking behind closed doors and not available to enlighten their countrymen . |
| 15 | It also means that you 've spent a productive few hours studying , which is a major contribution to your weekly workload . |
| 16 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |