1.   Last year a local deejay spent a month trying to bribe listeners into giving up information about the mysterious runner.

2.   My successor spent several months on the intercontinental telephone lines trying to locate the debtors.

3.   She spent a month in detox.

4.   We would spend a month at Orange learning the basics of Marching, singing, fitness, weapons drill and Legion history.

5.   He has spent a month basking in the adulation of the fans back in Jamaica.

6.   He spent the months leading up to the election barnstorming around the country.

7.   I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place, the radical reformer of early nineteenth-century Westminster.

8.   Gary Lineker to spend a month in sunny Swindon, before going to the land of the rising sun.

9.   The winners will spend a month at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in County Monaghan, Ireland.