21.   They spent three months in an El Camino parked in a convenience-store lot, he said.

22.   They bought the lot on Seaspray and spent months negotiating with state and town officials to make the move.

23.   While the repairs were under way, the family spent months living in the castle dungeons without electricity or running water.

24.   You had read everything you could get your hands on about the city and spent months fantasizing about the trip.

25.   Xi Zhinong had spent months photographing the elusive primate in this lush fir forest, which stretches between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers.

26.   A parliamentary committee has already spent months formulating the charges against Yeltsin.

27.   He was supposed to fly to Mir and spent months training at cosmonaut headquarters in Star City, Russia.

28.   Jobim lived in the Jardim Botanico section of Rio and spent months each year in the United States.

29.   Local officials who spent months preparing for the execution seemed relieved to put it behind them.

30.   The parliamentary committee that investigated the killing spent months searching for clues in official documents and in interviews with officials from the time.