Example sentences of "have spent some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have spent some space reviewing Lieberson 's arguments because he provokes an important critical reaction which is necessary to uproot the widespread belief that the survey is the answer to social research 's dreams . |
| 2 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 3 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 4 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 5 | ‘ I have spent some time in the United States , ’ he explained . |
| 6 | We have spent some time on the preliminaries , particularly the notation , because notation is essential for communication and because it is often neglected as a stage in attacking a problem . |
| 7 | Finally , the concern with manipulation means that postclassical criminology is correctionalist , as were its classical and positivist predecessors ; that is why I have spent some time , in Chapter 3 , countering anti-correctionalist arguments . |
| 8 | I have spent some time strolling awestruck inside Luci Arrighi 's magnificent , painstaking re-construction of the tunnel . |
| 9 | That 's why badgers which have spent some time recouperating need a home of their own . |