1.   Police have spent weeks dredging the lake but have not found his body.

2.   Her parents spent weeks sleeping on a hospital floor, while her sister, Caroline was being cared for by friends.

3.   Ivor and Pauline had suffered terrible burns and spent weeks at Frenchay Hospital critically ill.

4.   A team of Long Island managers was rushed to Orlando and spent weeks working out of a motel.

5.   Aaron Straus, owner of a San Francisco board and care home, spent weeks preparing payroll records and coaching his staff to handle things in his absence.

6.   Consequently, Dole and his advisers have spent weeks portraying Clinton as the most skilled of debaters.

7.   He engaged in prison hunger strikes, for example, and spent weeks in punishment cells for other infractions.

8.   He said every department at the utility had spent weeks pulling together information for the creditor list, to be submitted to Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali by mid-May.

9.   He spent two weeks at the Pralus school studying sous vide.