Example sentences of "spend some [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , we spent some £60 million helping refugees and displaced persons overseas . |
| 2 | The uprating deals with the expenditure of the largest Government Department — it spent some £60 billion this year . |
| 3 | In the course of this odyssey , and at a time when travel was usually uncomfortable and often dangerous , he travelled nearly eighty thousand kilometres on horseback and spent some £30,000 of his own money in his determination to improve prison conditions ; he entered prisons in disguise in defiance of governments who feared the power of his pen ; was captured by pirates ; quelled a riot single handed and more than earned John Wesley 's tribute to him as ‘ one of the greatest men in Europe ’ . |
| 4 | Will my right hon. Friend send a message today to the leaders of the National Association of Local Government Officers who are spending some £2 million on a shoddy and inaccurate advertising campaign , telling them that their policies of abandoning competitive tendering , abolishing the Audit Commission and introducing a minimum wage would be acceptable only to a party which has already sold its soul to the trade union bosses ? |
| 5 | Paper Tiger is spending some £10,000 on a promotion for its graphic and fantasy art list in April . |
| 6 | AS Controller of the Navy , Vice-Adml Sir Kenneth Eaton is responsible for spending some £3 billion a year on procuring ships and equipment . |
| 7 | In addition the broadcasters envisaged spending some £250,000 on coverage of committees . |
| 8 | The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation , which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan 's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete , is no more . |
| 9 | UniSoft says it was crucial for the six MIPS architecture partners — who have already spent some $1bn collectively on development — to have a migration route to a standard version of Unix . |
| 10 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 11 | So far , the Ship and Ocean Foundation has spent some ¥5 billion ( $36m ) on the Yamato-1 and its SEMP drives . |
| 12 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
| 13 | The DBMC , which began a meat safety assurance scheme last November to ensure compliance with United Kingdom food safety law , is to spend some £2 million this year promoting Danish bacon in Britain on both radio and television , reviving the slogan ‘ Good bacon has Danish written all over it . ’ |
| 14 | The American government has recently announced that it is to spend some $18 million to wipe out the pig population of Haiti in an effort to control the virus . |
| 15 | Qatar , which produced some 20 million tonnes of oil in 1984 , and exports steel , fertilizers and petrochemicals , plans to spend some $4–6 billion over the next seven years on a project to export liquefied gas from its vast North Field . |
| 16 | This year we expect consumers to spend some £80 billion on leisure — almost one quarter of consumer spending . |
| 17 | Intel Corp says it will ship 60 versions of the 80486 this year , with clock speeds ranging from 25MHz to 100MHz , senior vice-president Paul Otellini told the Hambrecht & Quist conference in San Francisco : ‘ We now have the capacity to build some 30m 80486s in 1993 , ’ Otellini said , and he expects Intel to sell some 100m 80486 chips after 1993 ; Intel expects to spend some $900m on research and development this year , up from $780m in 1992 , he declared , and would do 1m Pentiums in 1994 . |
| 18 | Outside suppliers are an integral part of the carmaking business : GM spends some $30 billion a year with its North American suppliers alone ; Ford $17 billion . |
| 19 | Cleveland has some 20,000 empty school places , and spends some £80 per pupil on its central administration , while only £40 per pupil is spent across the border in North Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Today we spend some £12,000 million a year on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 21 | Americans currently spend some $100 million per year on video conferences . |