Example sentences of "spend [adv] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rarely spend less than £200 a night , and often more . |
| 2 | Almost one in six said that they would spend more than £100 , according to the study by market research group Nielsen . |
| 3 | They will spend more than £40 a week on oil — that 's £2,000 a year — but you could spend £3,000 on a modern filter system and that will be paid back in 18 months . ’ |
| 4 | THE GOVERNMENT will spend more than £1bn before the next general election to take the sting out of the poll tax . |
| 5 | Why do some men spend more than £25 an hour just to talk ? |
| 6 | That figure will be part of a programme through which we will spend more than £1 billion on housing next year . |
| 7 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp now says that it will spend more than $17,200m — that 's what it translates to — a year to connect every home and office in Japan to its fibre-optic Integrated Services Digital Network by the year 2015 ; it started on the network in 1985 . |
| 8 | ( In contrast , the government spent less than £5 million on anti-smoking campaigns . ) |
| 9 | NORTH-EAST shoppers spent more than £100,000 every hour last year at the North Eastern Co-op . |
| 10 | The Midland spent more than £1bn on acquisitions round the world between 1979 and 1981 , money it could barely afford because of its capital weakness . |
| 11 | Bates is desperate for more success and Porterfield spent more than £6million in an attempt to produce it . |
| 12 | Some of the delegates spent more than £2,000 travelling to Britain to try to solve the mindboggling soaps problem . |
| 13 | Britain spent more than £318 million on glass containers , amounting to some 1.9 million tons of glass , in 1978 . |
| 14 | The sharp-dressed singer , who 's at No. 37 with Me And Mrs Jones , spent more than £1,000 in stores during a recent visit to London — only days after a £2,000 clothes spree in New York . |
| 15 | In 1992 the NHS spent more than £1,000 a head on the over-75s , compared with less than £250 each on under-65s . |
| 16 | In 1990 , we spent more than £10.5 million bilaterally on water sanitation projects in Africa — |
| 17 | A recent survey shows Britons spent more than £750m on the stuff last year the equivalent of eating around seven litres per head more than Germany , France and Italy . |
| 18 | Michael Cohen , a specialist dealer in oriental porcelain who expects to be a big bidder at next week 's sale , spent more than £1 million buying Nanking pieces . |
| 19 | Pressure from Bruce Millan , EC regional commissioner , has resulted in the Treasury reluctantly accepting that the funds provided by Brussels are additional to government spending rather than part of it and should be steered to specific projects rather than forming part of the spending pool . |
| 20 | A typical example is his remarks at the Cabinet meeting which approved the employment White Paper , when he suggested that at the beginning of a slump the Cabinet should declare a ‘ Salute the stomach ’ week along the lines of the wartime ‘ Salute the soldier ’ weeks , but with the emphasis on spending rather than saving . |
| 21 | Their problem was spending rather than saving . |
| 22 | After spending less than £500,000 above the line in 1991 , the company plans a £3.5m spend behind the new product in TV and press ads through Ogilvy & Mather . |
| 23 | The White Paper 's proposals were broadly enshrined in the Rates Act , 1984 , which empowers the Secretary of State for Environment : ( i ) to limit the rates of named authorities ( selective rate-capping ) ( authorities spending less than 10m , or below their GREA , are excluded from the selective scheme ) ; ( ii ) to cap the rates of all local authorities in England and Wales subject to an affirmative resolution of both Houses of Parliament . |
| 24 | Only 8% spent less than £200 a person . |
| 25 | But this year they are spending more than £6 million on propaganda for their own silly experiments . ’ |
| 26 | For that reason , we are spending more than £100 million over the next three years to provide accommodation for young single people . |
| 27 | In the bid to save Africa 's elephants , WWF is spending more than £2 million a year on 30 projects in 14 African countries . |
| 28 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 29 | ‘ Besides these measures , ’ said Mr Lang , ‘ the employment service in Scotland will be spending more than £10 million on the new community action programme which will enable unemployed people to undertake work of value to the community while retaining their entitlement to benefit . ’ |
| 30 | Special offer of two nights five-star B & B for anyone spending more than £800 . |