Example sentences of "spent [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But being a gentleman in England was not just a matter of giving orders ; it required considerable wealth , spent lavishly and in a way that commanded respect . |
| 2 | The length of run , the quality of cable and the money spent on equalised booster amplifiers all affect quality . |
| 3 | ROGER HOAD is threatening to sue the Jockey Club for the Pounds 5,500 he spent on successfully defending himself against weight-switching allegations . |
| 4 | Of the 6.0 billion ( 30% ) spent on further and higher education , nearly all ( 5.7 billion ) is current expenditure by both central government and LEAs , the former mainly on higher education , the latter largely on further education . |
| 5 | you have this amount of trade in and this amount of prospect and your telling me if I have half trade in and half prospect , I 'd like to see the difference in how much time you spent on |
| 6 | Despite staying for a week , spent mostly looking after of course , I found that the close bond I experienced having witnessed 's birth took a lot longer to develop with . |
| 7 | She straightened her shoulders , perhaps she had done enough for today , mam would be getting restless wanting a bit of attention after her long day spent mostly alone . |
| 8 | His eyes were an astounding blue and his complexion was ruddy from a life spent mostly at sea . |
| 9 | ‘ If we spent less on defence — ‘ |
| 10 | Despite the adoption , McCarty spent less and less time with Cooper , who only got more arrogant and eccentric . |
| 11 | ( In contrast , the government spent less than £5 million on anti-smoking campaigns . ) |
| 12 | It would be more accurate to say that very few spent less than seven or eight years in the trade , the majority spent at least 10–12 years , while about a fifth remained in the trade for life . |
| 13 | In fact , all British fashion retailers were being forced to recognize the ageing of the baby boom generation and at ‘ Laura Ashley ’ there was already a move towards broadening the appeal of the clothes to an older , more sophisticated market which spent less freely on personal adornment but demanded more in quality and style . |
| 14 | France has grown faster ; maintained a different balance between nuclear and conventional forces ; followed a different arms export policy ; pursued autonomy from the US ; and spent less on defence in relation to GDP . |
| 15 | The United States and Japan , who spent less than 0.04 per cent and 0.07 per cent respectively on ODA to LDCs and were at the bottom of the league table of aid donors , undertook to increase their aid . |
| 16 | In total , Pippin and PJ spent only a few minutes under the lights and had a lots of praise and Bonios afterwards . |
| 17 | His courtesy , however , contained a reticence that did not permit him to ask outright just how she had come by her knowledge of Møn when she spent only a week a year on the island . |
| 18 | Drumlanrig is a magnificent , pink castle , built between 1679 and 1689 , by the first Earl of Queensberry , who spent only one night under its roof . |
| 19 | Local training is to be improved by the LDDC , but between 1981 and 1987 it spent only £2.2 million on its two major initiatives , neither of which deals with the over twenty-fives ( Docklands Consultative Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Moorcroft spent only one year on the Lyons course , planned to occupy four years . |
| 21 | Yet in 1981 it spent only £38 million on repairs to railways . |
| 22 | He spent only two years at school . |
| 23 | By contrast , it spent only £14,500 on publicity among older and disabled people in this country , about 0.2p per vote . |
| 24 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 25 | We actually spent only the necessary amount to put the building into occupiable order . |
| 26 | Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 . |
| 27 | Even though the recession had not started to force prices down then , they spent only £68,000 erecting their four-bedroomed tower house , which overlooks a salmon river and rolling countryside . |
| 28 | Many of the initial assessments by doctors in this study were carried out by trainee psychiatrists who spent only six months with the team as part of their training ; had the proportion of assessments by consultant psychogeriatricians and clinical assistants in the sample been more representative , the agreements between team and research diagnoses might have been closer still . |
| 29 | They spent only a minute or so at each tree , cleaning off dried latex , adjusting the collecting supports and making new incisions through which the day 's latex could escape . |
| 30 | The national sample of teachers spent only a third of their time interacting with groups : the bulk was divided between whole-class and individual interactions . |