Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] spend a year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nordstrom has already spent a year researching the concept . |
| 2 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 3 | The expansion of American medical research , much of the finest quality , attracted European doctors who aspired to a scientific career , and they did well to spend a year or two in an American laboratory , or even to emigrate there altogether . |
| 4 | Consensys , also with offices in San Antonio , Texas and Reading in the UK , already offers a standard SVR4 implementation , though it had previously spent a year getting that release into product shape after taking delivery from Unix System Labs . |
| 5 | From that modest beginning has grown Koi Garden , where the prices are as unpretentious as the boss , and the larger fish have all spent a year being grown-on before going on sale . |
| 6 | Expressing a desire to see the world first , he set off to spend a year teaching elementary mathematics in Kenya . |