Example sentences of "spend the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winner and their partner will spend the first week in Antigua , based at Hawksbill Bay , with its four magnificent beaches . |
| 2 | My year between school and university was about as creative as the period Terry Waite spent in captivity staring at a concrete wall with only his postcard of John Bunyan for reading matter , but I did spend the first few weeks of it in the typing class of a comprehensive school in Hackney . |
| 3 | Anne and Tim will spend the first night of their honeymoon at Balmoral before travelling next day to an unknown destination . |
| 4 | If we had five hundred years on earth we could say , ‘ OK , I 'll spend the first hundred years doing nothing in particular , the next hundred learning about life , the next hundred building a relationship , the next hundred working and my last hundred in leisure . ’ |
| 5 | Did n't you spend the first session deciding whether to include that little pre-position ? |
| 6 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 7 | The idea being is that they would now spend the first year at college , possibly we then would look at them better and |
| 8 | Poor France , where the Kiwis will spend the next three weeks , are now likely to suffer the consequences of this improvement . |
| 9 | Koch had hoped to remove Conner from the final trials , which begin on Saturday , so he could spend the next 25 days honing his chosen boat for the America 's Cup match against one of the two challengers — New Zealand or Il Moro de Venecia — which starts on May 9 . |
| 10 | I shall spend the next several years drinking decaffeinated coffee and swapping babygros with other NCT mothers while my partner bores his colleagues to death with intestinal flora between games of squash . |
| 11 | The new institute will spend the next year merging the three existing committee and regional structures , and expects to be fully operational by 1 January 1993 . |
| 12 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 13 | Transfer to the Hotel Cataract in Aswan , where you will spend the next four nights . |
| 14 | Our destination was to be Cliff College in the Peat District , where we would spend the next few days . |
| 15 | I thought we 'd spend the next few days in Monaco , getting to know each other ! ’ he finished outrageously . |
| 16 | The Corrs will spend the next day at the Museum of Moving Image ( MOMI ) . |
| 17 | If Pete kept interrupting him , he could spend the next three years never finishing a sentence . |
| 18 | Now she would spend the next week or so wondering when and how he was going to kiss her ! |
| 19 | They 'll spend the next week battling with each other to see who is the champion student debater . |
| 20 | They 'll spend the next few days sorting through that information . |
| 21 | The summit will spend the next four days discussing issues ranging from the division of Cyprus to the war in Bosnia . |
| 22 | Clinton will spend the next few days meeting a wide range of individuals but will not announce any appointments to his administration until he feels comfortable , said spokeswoman DeeDee Myers . |
| 23 | Most of the people , just over two thirds , who spent all the last year of their life in a residential or nursing home were 85 or more , and it is this age group which is predicted to increase most rapidly in the next twenty years ( Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) , 1989 ) so it is likely that increasing numbers will spend the last year of their lives in such homes . |
| 24 | For example , he 'll say something like , ‘ Well , I would n't wan na spend the last two minutes of my life listening to that lick ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 've now arranged to fly out and spend the last two weeks of his working trip with him as a kind of nosing-around holiday while I 'm about it , but the first two weeks … ’ |
| 26 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 27 | Like Anne Frank , Audrey spent the Second World War in occupied Holland . |
| 28 | After six nights in a row with O , Boy spent the seventh night on his own ; he went to his own place . |
| 29 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 30 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |