1.   A lot of students spend a year abroad in between school and university.

2.   After a lifetime of poverty, his last few years were spent in comparative comfort.

3.   After spending a few years in the U.S.

4.   After spending years piecing together fragments, we now have the whole original manuscript.

5.   Berda Morley, who opened the store last May, spent years working in sales and design in the garment industry.

6.   But she had spent many years perfecting the art of the memo.

7.   Fay spent a year in Italy teaching English.

8.   Griffin, who has already spent years undergoing alcohol-abuse therapy, stood meekly as the sentence was read.

9.   Having spent a year in Brazil, she hoped she would have the edge over the other language students.

10.   He attended a magnet Junior high school for gifted children in Los Angeles and spent a year in high school in Reseda.