Example sentences of "spent a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have spent a long day on the airfield , it will be difficult to refuse your turn to fly , even if you are tired . |
| 2 | I had spent a long day in the autumn bargaining with the previous owner over the furniture and carpets and ended up having bought most of it at a reasonable price . |
| 3 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 4 | And then he thought : I 've spent a long time doing things for everybody 's sake . |
| 5 | spent a long time showing me his Dark Crystal |
| 6 | I 'VE SPENT a long time cultivating this dour image , I 'm not going to spoil it now . |
| 7 | In other words , if you have spent a long time writing programs to carry out tasks , you will have to start again from scratch . |
| 8 | It is a tribute not only to the management at Yarrow but to the workers , who have spent a long time removing ill-considered demarcation practices — and it is as a shipbuilder that I say that . |
| 9 | He 'd spent a long time twisting bits of wire together and finding a safe way to steal electricity from the fusebox . |
| 10 | I personally and I 'm sure it goes for many here , have spent a long time in the private rented sector and if the opportunity existed to get into council housing we would have taken it . |
| 11 | The meeting was timely because Hamish Kidd , a Cambridge chemical engineer who had spent a long period in general management consultancy with P-E Consulting Group , had developed systems to introduce executive search into P-E when it was sanctioned as an allowable technique by the Management Consultants Association ( MCA ) . |