Example sentences of "spend [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we would n't be starting at that , at the point that you did because we did not , would not have spent the approaching five million that you spent in the first er , month or two of this council . |
| 2 | She could recall the excitement of spending for the first time money she had actually earned . |
| 3 | The report starts by reviewing the pattern of spending in the first two years of the fund . |
| 4 | The importance of this should not be missed : one aspect of growing local government spending in the first thirty years after 1945 was that the balance between sources of funding shifted dramatically . |
| 5 | If taxes are needed to pay for government spending , why do we need government spending in the first place ? |
| 6 | If a home does not meet the minimum standard , the owner will be able to claim back all the money spent within the first year after purchase on raising it to that level , through , for example , home insulation , up to the amount of stamp duty they paid when they bought the property ( up to the maximum of £1000 ) . |
| 7 | Others , whose teenage years were spent in the first half of the Seventies , grew up with a corrupt mixture of Sixties heroes ( Jimi Hendrix , Simon and Garfunkel , The Rolling Stones , Procul Harum ) and Seventies efflorescences ( Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , The Carpenters , Elton John , the original Genesis with Peter Gabriel ) . |
| 8 | This has made farmers think about changing the amount of money they spend on the first two inputs , shown at X on the diagram . |