Example sentences of "have spent [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter point was silly , coming from a man who has spent much of the last five years persuading his party that the world had changed since May 1979 and that there was no going back . |
| 2 | She has spent much of the last ten years establishing herself and securing her home base , and it is only now that she is beginning to realize her potential . |
| 3 | Mr Husseini , the most senior supporter of the PLO in the occupied territories , has spent much of his time recently trying to prevent the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities . |
| 4 | By contrast , a ‘ Solarz for President ’ campaign sounds improbable : the congressman has spent much more time in Asia than in Iowa . |
| 5 | Dr Sandage has spent much of his life as the custodian of Hubble 's legacy , trying to show how that relative redness can be turned into an absolute distance . |
| 6 | There is nonetheless little doubt that it has spent much of its working life as a corn mill , grinding corn for the local population . |
| 7 | The NCB has spent much also on machinery for all the mines . |
| 8 | A Dutchman with the added merit of an MBA from Lancaster , he is a marketing specialist who has spent much of his 19-year career with the company immersed in detergents . |
| 9 | R. McNeill Alexander , a zoologist at the University of Leeds , has spent much of his professional life analysing the movement dynamics of animals . |
| 10 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 11 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 12 | Poet and painter Adrian Henri has spent much time in Dieppe and its environs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dr Walter Yellowlees has spent much of his life working in the Scottish county of Perthshire , where he has daily encountered diseases related to poor nutrition such as diabetes , coronary heart disease , high blood pressure and above all cancer . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) has spent much of his time over the past few months telling industry about his policies . |
| 16 | A pilot who was taught to fly by the RAF has spent much of the past eighteen months in his garden shed making his own aeroplane . |
| 17 | The man in charge of the crew has spent much of the day trying to clarify the situation with aid workers in Bosnia . |
| 18 | Jackie Aitchison , chairman of the consortium , has spent much of the last few weeks in talks with potential partners . |
| 19 | For Dawn has spent much of her time in recent weeks on a woman-watching exercise . |
| 20 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 21 | Further , the Leader herself has spent many toiling hours of late calling on the peoples of Eastern Europe to hold elections and thereby demonstrate their attachment to the fundamentals of democracy . |
| 22 | ‘ Even Husak has spent many more years in jail than I have , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ It is with a feeling of surprise and wonder , even of awe , that humans become aware of a great intelligence living in the sea ; of marine mammals with a perception greater than that of other animals , more akin to our own , ’ says New Zealander Frank Robson , who has spent many years working with dolphins both in captivity and in the wild . |
| 24 | According to Koen Van Waerebeek , who has spent many years studying the dolphin hunt , hardly anyone in Peru is aware of the true nature of chancho marino . |
| 25 | WE WERE a small group : Soeriaatmadja , the head of Indonesia 's Elephant Task Force , Graham Child , the director of Zimbabwe 's National Park Service , Iain Douglas-Hamilton , who has spent many years observing elephants in East Africa , and me . |
| 26 | At his home in Brisbane , the Author has spent many enjoyable hours discussing the part that George Walker had played in helicopter design . |
| 27 | Her mother added : ‘ Mia has spent many nights crying . |
| 28 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 29 | At thirty-two , he confesses to Louise the manner in which he has spent many hours of his life : imagining what he would to if he had an income of a million francs a year . |
| 30 | This lady has spent many years studying the life of the people who lived in these parts in former times . ’ |