Sentence examples for spent pieces from inspiring English sources

A novelist whose books include "The Inn at Lake Devine," "The Ladies' Man" and "Then She Found Me," which was made into a recent movie starring Helen Hunt and Colin Firth, Ms. Lipman, 57, had spent pieces of many summers on the Cape and thought it was finally time to solidify the relationship.

And all those months spent piecing together the few hours required for a hearing or trial were months that removed children spent in foster care.

The rest of the weekend is spent piecing together their terrible night, and the key to their misfortune is a horrendous camp Chinese gangster called Mr Chow: an uproarious performance from Ken Jeong.

Otherwise a large amount of time will probably be spent piecing together the parts of your parents' financial puzzle.

"Then we need to get this debt ceiling and spending piece done.

The following 2 years will be spent fitting pieces together and filling key gaps.

To do this, the 34-year-old designer and his team spent days piecing together satellite images and obsessing over everything from the placement of bridges and boats to the location of Theyskens's own West Village apartment building.

Mr. Formel, a retired ship captain who serves on the local school board, says he spent $150,000 to piece together his hydro plant from concrete and salvaged steel parts over eight years.

Left with fragments of a work that would never be written, Goldstein spent years piecing them together and finished a manuscript, based on the interviews, which was approved for publication by Yale University Press.

Ms. Penney, who worked in the New York State Office of Mental Health, and Dr. Peter Stastny, a psychiatrist and documentary filmmaker, spent years piecing together what happened to 25 patients from their belongings, medical records and interviews.

This is in stark contrast to the cottage industry of international laboratories making up the rival publicly financed Human Genome Project, which spent years piecing a sequence together.Even though the public project has criticised Celera's approach, it has had to take on some of its tools in order to keep up.