1.   He loved music and spent hours playing the violin, although not well.

2.   Karen reported the theft the police and the ranger, and spent hours driving around the roads looking for Tang.

3.   Not long ago we used to go to the library every time we needed information and spent hours searching for the right sources.

4.   But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense, ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina.

5.   I know you spent hours, I know you spent hours preparing this speech.

6.   At their home in Ridgefield, N.J., Asciak converted the attic into a family room and spent hours maintaining the yard.

7.   Buist lived with the Stones and spent hours practicing with her coach.

8.   But many Somers students said they had spent hours transfixed by the live broadcasts immediately after the shootings.

9.   Given their diametrically opposed strengths, it figures that McGinnis has spent long hours adjusting his defense.

10.   He had learned to use a computer at Samaritan and spent hours every day searching the Internet and talking to friends by e-mail.