11.   He had earlier spent several years in the Middle East and spoke fluent Arabic.

12.   He had spent the years of his young manhood in this city while I was still going to cheder.

13.   He spent many years in enforced exile.

14.   He spent several years in Paris in the late forties.

15.   He spent several years in the monastery disguised as a monk.

16.   He spent years trying to build a business in Antigua.

17.   His early years there were spent in a squat with an extended family of cartoon sociopaths.

18.   I have spent years using buses, and seem to have a knack of sitting next to some very odd people.

19.   I was intrigued to learn that our Chinese host had spent many years in Chicago.