Example sentences of "[noun] have spend [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 2 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 3 | Walter Last has spent some time developing a system for cutting the compound angles on the segments for his turning |
| 4 | The manner of his election was dubious in the extreme ; Gallus had spent much time at the court of Theuderic , but at the time of Quintianus 's death he was in Clermont ; while the citizens were trying to decide on a new candidate the Holy Spirit descended on Gallus , according to his relative Gregory , and on the advice of his uncle Inpetratus he set off and presented himself to Theuderic , who authorized his consecration . |
| 5 | Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 9 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 10 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 11 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 12 | Every Rentokil person in Water and Ventilation , Tropical Plants and Medical Services has spent much time and energy developing SSG & FQS this year and now they will really shoot us way into the lead . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It had been a well-known fact that their last medical officer had spent little time studying new methods of health and safety and accident prevention and there had been an ever-present air of friction between himself and Ron Banks . |
| 15 | This time last week it had been , last Saturday , when she and Miguel had spent some time together and she was as happy as she had ever been in her life — until that moment when she discovered just how much of a fool he had made of her … |