Example sentences of "spent [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 2 | His courtesy , however , contained a reticence that did not permit him to ask outright just how she had come by her knowledge of Møn when she spent only a week a year on the island . |
| 3 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 4 | They spent only a minute or so at each tree , cleaning off dried latex , adjusting the collecting supports and making new incisions through which the day 's latex could escape . |
| 5 | The national sample of teachers spent only a third of their time interacting with groups : the bulk was divided between whole-class and individual interactions . |
| 6 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 7 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 8 | So again in London we spent nearly a week setting up the microphones and rehearsing . |
| 9 | Mary spent nearly a week working in the secret garden . |
| 10 | When we set Headline up we spent nearly a year before publishing our first full list putting in place the systems that would allow the company to expand . |
| 11 | Chapman and Rockwell spent nearly a year in the trenches , Rockwell receiving a bad thigh wound in May 1915 . |
| 12 | After he had checked her account , he then spent nearly an hour searching , with Duncan , for clues . |
| 13 | They spent nearly an hour discussing Faye Hamilton 's obstetrical and gynaecological history , and at the end of it Belinda was reeling . |
| 14 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 15 | I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in . |
| 16 | Tommy spent quite a time delivering the handbills to every house in the town and opened for business at eight o'clock on a Monday morning and closed twelve hours later . |
| 17 | Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him . |
| 18 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 19 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 20 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 21 | We spent quite a long time sorting out this problem in the electrostatic case , and we need not repeat the argument here . |
| 22 | During these years Lambarde , after the death of his second wife , spent quite a lot of his time in London , and it was the fashionable thing in London for men of rank and members of Inns of Court to visit the Shakespearean theatre , while the plays were also performed in the Grays Inn Hall , before crowded audiences of Benchers , Lawyers and friends . |
| 23 | Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas . |
| 24 | They were a large family , much married in the neighbourhood , and certain members of it spent quite a lot of money in his pub . |
| 25 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 26 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 27 | I remember when Mike and Robin went into their flats I spent quite a long time with them |
| 28 | And you spent quite a bit of it , that , say on sweets . |
| 29 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 30 | She spent almost an hour in the room with Anna . |