Example sentences of "spend as " in BNC.
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1 | So provided you have the money in your account , you can spend as much as you like . |
2 | Though EIGHT may read well , he may not spend as much time at reading by himself as he did at seven and he again likes very much to be read to . |
3 | All food , but especially meat , poultry , fish and milk , should spend as little time as possible at temperatures between 5°C ( 41°F ) and 63°C ( 145°F ) . |
4 | Michael Short , the director of the National Association for Gifted Children , says prodigies should spend as much time as possible with their peer group . |
5 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
6 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
7 | Managers may spend as much as fifty per cent of their working lives engaged in meetings of various types . |
8 | The strangest point came from Steve the sculptor : ‘ At least you do n't spend as much time rushing to the loo as when you drink lemonade , and you burp less . ’ |
9 | He believed that people should spend as little as possible on themselves and think as little as possible about themselves — no more , indeed , than the little thought that was needed to keep them usefully alive . |
10 | I only wish and I mean this very sincerely I only wish we could spend as much time and as often as is spent discussing fox hunting on the county 's homeless , on abused children , on the handicapped , on the increasing crime and on unemployment and I only wish that the media and the public and even members of this council would take as much notice of that as they do about this debate on fox hunting . |
11 | ‘ I 'll spend as little as possible , and , as for now , a sandwich and coffee is all I need . |
12 | They say they will spend as much time as they can together in the interests of their children . |
13 | ‘ If we have to spend money replacing windows we can not spend as much on new equipment . |
14 | But this soon coincided with a clampdown on public expenditure and councils were told they could n't spend as much as they wanted on housing . |
15 | ‘ We will go and spend as many days and nights on the road as are necessary in order to reach them , ’ he said , adding that the UNHCR might cut off its aid to Serbs in eastern Bosnia if the convoys were stopped at Serb road blocks . |
16 | The new owners , Richard Rowlands , a solicitor , and Derota Rees-Lik , do not intend to live on the island but have said they will spend as much time there as possible . |
17 | At one extreme , the consumer could spend nothing in the present period and save all of his present income so that in the future period he can spend as much as Y t + 1 ; + ( 1 + i ) Y t ; that is , his future income plus his saved present income plus interest . |
18 | You can spend as much as you like to do that ! |
19 | In the lakes so , they 're gon na spend as much time as they can round the |