Example sentences of "[vb base] to spend a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 2 | Or , if you like to spend a long time in the tub , you might like a wider one , which may well fit into the existing space . |
| 3 | People choose to spend a high proportion of their disposable income on buying and running a car because car ownership enhances their lives . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 5 | We would generally feel that the welfare of people who need to knock themselves out with some kind of drug and need to spend a large part of their lives thus self-narcotised is less good than that of people who do not need to . |
| 6 | ‘ People have to spend a long time with robot animals first . |
| 7 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 8 | My position as warden means that I have to spend a fair amount of time in the office , dealing with correspondence and the large amount of information that our fieldwork generates . |
| 9 | Mind you , the court-going officers still have to spend a fair amount of time attending trials . |
| 10 | Moreover , there is an absence of facilities for obtaining cards for the meters , so that many people who have to use them have to spend a considerable amount of money on travelling to get hold of cards . |