Example sentences of "[noun pl] have spend [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 3 | It is a tribute to the importance of her personality that her advisers have spent much time on her image . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |