31.   Day trippers who come to spend a few hours on the island.

32.   Spent an hour on the phone prattling on about nothing in particular.

33.   I spent an hour scrubbing the crud off the old stove.

34.   He spent an hour in conference with the president.

35.   They spend an hour each morning at their devotions.

36.   The holy monk spent many hours on his knees in prayer.

37.   Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town -- it needed no more time than that -- trying to get the feel of the place.

38.   Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini.

39.   Large patient throughput in hospitals can undoubtedly give the impression of excessive use if patients spend many hours waiting to be seen or queuing for drugs.

40.   Primary colleagues will have spent many hours compiling this information and it is incumbent on secondary teachers to use these to inform pupil progression.