Example sentences of "[verb] spent some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 2 | So far , the Ship and Ocean Foundation has spent some ¥5 billion ( $36m ) on the Yamato-1 and its SEMP drives . |
| 3 | Cynrik has spent some years researching the crash and succeeded in tracing Sgt Fenton 's younger brother , Raymond . |
| 4 | On the very day of the dinner Charlotte Poole was writing in her journal : ‘ We are shocked to hear that Mr. Thelwall has spent some time at Stowey this week with Mr. Coleridge , and consequently with Tom Poole . |
| 5 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 6 | Even where individuals have not been to the West Indies themselves , they often live in a household with an older person of the same generation ( e.g. an older sibling ) who either was born there or has spent some time there . |
| 7 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 8 | Having spent some time as a ‘ little kid ’ at the front of the terrace , and having learned through close observation the most rudimentary rules of conduct appropriate to being a Rowdy , the young fan simply shifts his location to the back of the End and to the fringes of the Rowdies group . |
| 9 | Having spent some time delving into the subject , I can report that pen computers are still mostly useless because of the lack of proper pen software . |
| 10 | Having spent some time loading and editing complicated vector graphics files in CorelDRAW I can vouch for the accuracy of this claim . |
| 11 | I was gon na say , having spent some months or years well . |
| 12 | Having spent some weeks in 1951 as medical officer to a basic training regiment in Aldershot , I recall with amusement many of the subterfuges and deceptions described by Albert Morris . |
| 13 | I was , as you might imagine , a little taken aback by this request and ordinarily the matter might have been one I would have spent some time pondering . |
| 14 | I know Howard Wilkinson was disappointed at the delivery in the first leg and , if I know him , Leeds will have spent some time since working to make sure those balls count next time . |
| 15 | In order to do this , he or she has to have considerable experience of the advertising business , and may well have spent some time working for a client company . |
| 16 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 17 | It was only when I felt safe with you , and after we had spent some hours working on our poems , that we would go down to the restaurant for late dinner , which always ended with either banana or ‘ flan ’ . |
| 18 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 19 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 20 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 21 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 22 | She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge . |
| 23 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 24 | I had spent some time on a camping/cycling holiday with my family in the West country . |
| 25 | It was very different from when , during my student days , I had spent some time in the specialised wards of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at St Pancras , where patients were treated for cholera , yellow fever , elephantiasis , malaria , leprosy , encephalitis lethargica , and a dozen other diseases that might have originated in the tropics . |
| 26 | Bradshaw and Millar found that about 85 per cent of all lone mothers had spent some time on income support since becoming a lone parent with 72 per cent still in receipt at the time of the interview . |
| 27 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 28 | ‘ Do stop worrying , ’ Lili ordered him , after he had spent some time fulminating against the iniquities of the gallery owner . |
| 29 | It is uncertain what weight can be placed on the evidence of a medieval Welsh triad which refers to Eadwine as nurtured in Môn ( Anglesey ) , implying that he had spent some time — perhaps while in exile — on the island , but set into the earliest surviving Welsh tradition is the memory of armed conflict between Eadwine and Cadwallon . |
| 30 | Dippy Martin had not seen anyone but he had spent some time at the top of the lane . |