They spent a year sourcing ingredients, including quinine, tonic's main ingredient, from the cinchona, the so-called fever tree.

To play this rugged cowboy, the X-Men star spent a year learning to ride horses.

One of my favourites was an earnest mature student from Nigeria with whom I spent a year studying computer systems design.

Students in electrical engineering and electronics, computer science and maths have been given the opportunity to spend a year studying in China.

It was two acres overgrown with stinging nettles and we spent a year putting it right.