The phrase "a bit of spy" is not correct in standard English usage.
It may be intended to refer to a small amount of spying or a minor involvement in espionage, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "He was involved in a bit of spy work during his time in the intelligence agency."
Alternatives: "a little spying" or "some espionage".
Born in 1685 in the prosperous university town of Halle in central Germany to a surgeon father close to the Hanoverian ruling house, he had travelled Europe as a musician on the make, even turning to a bit of spying for the future George I in the anxious dying days of the Stuart monarchy under Queen Anne.
Carly Fiorina forced out in February 2005, and then Mark Hurd takes over, and things seem to settle down - barring a bit of spying on its own board members - until he gets booted for his relationship with a "greeter" and allegations of expenses fiddling.
After a bit of spying, we learned that my father drove right back to my voice teacher's street every week, just pacing up and down the sidewalk, waiting for that one moment where my molester would come out of hiding and my father would, well -- I'm not sure.
Much of it is open to the public, but even so I felt like a bit of a spy, peering into classrooms lined with ancient wooden desks, chatting with law students smoking on arcaded balconies, climbing up stairwells whose landings gave successively more impressive views of the city below.
NEW YORK (AP) - While there was a bit of a spy vibe on the Badgley Mischka catwalk at New York Fashion Week on Tuesday, there was no mystery about the clothes: straight-up glamour.
Similarly, he believes that as an intellectual he may best show support for freedom by keeping some distance from its dirty work.Back in Oxford, he brushes off a suggestion from British intelligence that he do a bit of domestic spying on the side by keeping an eye on some types it does not like who hang around the university.
Joe himself is also a bit of a cipher; spies are generally trained to be remote, of course, but "The Americans" does a better job of giving the audience clues about its characters' emotional dilemmas.
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