Perhaps it was because he had spent so much of his life on the sea and in the air.

I seem to have spent so much of my life here.

He had spent too much of his life creating trouble where there was none.

The poor kid had spent so much of her life in a car, she probably felt more at home on the highway than anywhere else.

She had spent so much of her adult life doing for herself that it was a treat.

She had spent so much of her life in cities.

But then he'd spent too much of his life waiting for perfect moments that had never come.

He'd already spent so much of his life as an outsider.

I'd spent too much of my life running away as it was.

She had spent far too much of her own life doing the same.