Example sentences of "have to spend " in BNC.

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1 Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them .
2 successful showcases can create substantial industry interest in a band , but if you are going to pull out all the stops , you have to spend a lot of money with no guarantee of a positive result .
3 I have to spend three hours a day doing all sorts of muscle-building and strengthening exercises .
4 Since my accident , I have to spend three hours every day doing muscle-building and strengthening exercises
5 The p/e ratio measures the amount of money you have to spend on shares to have a given amount of earnings next year and is a key gauge used by te City in assessing the price of shares .
6 They range from the UK equivalent of plea bargaining to the curiosity that while Boesky , a confessed criminal , can arrange special deals with the prosecution , those charged with lesser offences have to spend three years keeping lawyers in clover while waiting for their turn at justice .
7 Technology and resource transfers to help and persuade Third World countries to combat the effects of global climate change potentially could impose enormous charges on the developed nations in addition to what they have to spend nationally and regionally .
8 Now they have to spend their mornings planning budgets and their afternoons paying bills .
9 On top of everything else , Italy is running out of opera singers , probably because the theatres have to spend their money on things other than academies for voice-training .
10 Polish housewives no longer have to spend two hours a day in queues , and they can choose between 15 brands of mineral water , when once only one diesel-flavoured Polish brand was on offer .
11 Nobody likes to see their mistakes exposed in public , especially those who have to spend the rest of their lives in bitter consequence .
12 Thus , while land-drainage departments promote agricultural intensification , other departments in the same water authority have to spend more public money in expensive plant to treat the water , in order to comply with EEC regulations on nitrate levels .
13 If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ?
14 He suggested several ways in which a group such as the Club could reduce the time members have to spend trying to keep up-to-date with the latest developments .
15 For they have just been faced with the prospect of losing £1 million of the money they have to spend on research this year .
16 You have to spend years and years working off the initial residue of suspicion and diffidence before you 're even out of the red , let alone seeing any positive return for your efforts .
17 Having healthy foods does n't always mean you have to spend hours on preparation — there are several convenience canned foods that not only taste good but are enriched with vitamins too .
18 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 .
19 We have to spend a lot of time learning the limitations of the amplifier versus the guitar we 're using , and the microphones and console … ’
20 ‘ Is there any well known author you do n't know already with whom you 'd like to spend all the time I have to spend with him ? ’ asked Roger plaintively .
21 ‘ If it were n't for the fact that we have to spend time and pay lawyers to deal with it , we would find the whole thing laughable , ’ E&Y 's marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY .
22 ‘ When you have money you have to spend it on players and forget profit . ’
23 Unlike many carnivores , for whom a single meal a day is often sufficient , herbivores have to spend much of their time eating .
24 You have to spend some proportion of the fee there on the rock .
25 They appreciate the humour and find the lesson units neatly fit the time we have to spend with them in class .
26 As your business grows , so does the size of your payroll and the amount of time you or your staff have to spend calculating and paying wages , salaries and pensions .
27 Then safe in the knowledge that you have the finance arranged you can start visiting car showrooms knowing exactly how much you have to spend .
28 Yes , if you have to spend any time in hospital as the result of an accident which requires an overnight stay .
29 Thus , we are better off not only in terms of the money people have to spend , but also in terms of the quality of our schools , hospitals , roads and other forms of public service that are an important part of our true standard of living .
30 And so if we look at what was happening to income at that time , we find that the disposable income , meaning the amount of money we have to spend on other things after we 've bought essentials , that figure rose by only one and a half percent throughout this period .
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