Sentence examples for spent a considerable time from inspiring English sources

He was spooked by the stewards' bright yellow jackets and spent a considerable time informing everyone of the fact.

One of the many people who has witnessed Brown's tantrums is a man who spent a considerable time advising the government on one of its policies.

This open-air painting and drawing was practiced also by some other artists who spent a considerable time in Rome the Dutch artists Jan Asselijn, Claes Berchem, Karel Dujardin, and Adam Pijnacker, for example.

When the enemy drew nigh, he bade his men stand to their arms, until he had finished the sacrifice, in which he spent a considerable time, either by some difficulty of the thing itself, or on purpose to invite the enemy nearer.

Bradshaw is one of the pioneers of the emergent field of anthrozoology, the science of human-animal interactions, whose previous books include In Defence of Dogs (a beautifully tendentious title), which, unsurprisingly, spent a considerable time on the bestsellers list – because we love books about dogs more than we love books about each other.

It was easy to get lost in the sheer scale of the collection (7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 2,400 prints and 6,300 drawings) and I spent a considerable time with the works of Francisco Goya, from his work of painting Spanish nobility to his later work of the black paintings, which are haunting yet beautiful.

At hatching, the young may closely resemble the adult and assume the adult habitat or they may differ from the adult and spend a considerable time in the plankton as part of the drifting life.

And unlike the first game, this one allows players to spend a considerable time playing: Dark Moon is not only more difficult than the first title, but it's also more than twice as long.

Intermarried bi-national couples need to spend a considerable time "living their marriage" before the immigrant spouse receives an autonomous right of residence (eigenstaendiges Aufenhaltsrecht).

A cell is detected as Office if the user spends a considerable time in that cell during the working time on weekdays as d c, wd / d c > t weekday = 0.8 (3).

The mandatory provision of crèche facilities at worksites appeared to exist only on paper and mothers had to spend a considerable time away from infant feeding and care.