Example sentences of "have spent [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Allan and her husband Stuart , 52 , have spent more than £20,000 on the search . |
| 2 | Since 1979 , we have spent more than £3,000 million on roads in Wales . |
| 3 | We have spent more than £5 million on our radical Waiting Times Initiative , leading to the treatment of 35,000 extra patients . |
| 4 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 5 | Foxboro itself have spent more than $6 million to protect the equipment that it sells against RFI . |
| 6 | Since the last appeal in 1985 the trustees have spent more than £1 million on the restoration of the fabric of the buildings as well as on restoring the high cross of St John , now on display in the Abbey Museum . |
| 7 | We have spent thousands of citizens ' tax payers ' money on that case and the Eastern Board have spent more than us in defending it . |
| 8 | Hedwige Boesch-Achermann and Christophe Boesch ( here with son Lukas ) have spent more than 10 years studying chimp society in the Taï forest . |
| 9 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |
| 10 | Mr Salmond added : ‘ We have spent more than two months at Labour 's behest going through a process of consultation with the STUC only to be told at the end of it that Labour want to junk his key proposal before we get to a meeting . ’ |
| 11 | British servicemen have spent more than five hours on the vessel , the Tadma , after absailing onto its deck from a Lynx helicopter . |
| 12 | British servicemen have spent more than five hours on the vessel after absailing onto it 's deck from a Lynx helicopter . |