Example sentences of "spent the first [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father , who spent the first quarter of a century in Chile , was awarded the Order of Merit . |
| 2 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 3 | To show ‘ solidarity with the poor ’ , and hoping , politely , to shame the Americans into faster delivery , President Guillermo Endara spent the first half of March fasting in Metropolitan Cathedral . |
| 4 | ‘ He took me to his hotel for dinner then spent the first half of the evening trying to get me drunk and the second half trying to get me upstairs . ’ |
| 5 | Fifteen Associates , plus two from each of the Irish and Scottish Institutes , travelled to Frankfurt , where they spent the first week of the ninth German Banking Study Tour . |
| 6 | Cos I spent , I spent the first week of the holiday mainly with Shelley . |
| 7 | While he spent the first month of his new appointment easing himself in and still nipping up to Edinburgh to round off one or two NHS tasks from London ( where he kept his home and from which he was commuting during his health job ) , many of the key decisions affecting the telecommunications industry over the next year or so have already been taken , so the learning curve will not have to be so dramatics last time . |