Example sentences of "have been spending " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 2 | The government has been spending beyond its means , with a budget deficit last year of 120 billion roubles ( £120 billion at the official rate ) , or 10 per cent of GNP . |
| 3 | BT has been spending £2bn a year on upgrading the country 's telecommunications networks and exchanges from analogue to digital , and it can now offer dial-up end-to-end digital connections to over 90% of UK businesses and almost as many private households . |
| 4 | ROBERT DE NIRO has been spending the summer working as a bus driver . |
| 5 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 6 | Fleet Street , which has been spending millions for years trying get the formula right , holds the opposite point of view . |
| 7 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 8 | Stephen Roche , who has been spending the season preparing for the two big tours of Italy and France , seems to have got it right . |
| 9 | It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka each month . |
| 10 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 11 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 12 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 13 | ‘ If we had been at home Rachel might have been spending the day with us instead . ’ |
| 14 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 15 | I said two to three years , I do n't deny it , but I would n't have been spending every minute of that time working to pay off what I owed you . |
| 16 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |
| 17 | At one time , the marquess was said to have been spending £1,200 a week on drugs . |
| 18 | Iraq is said to have been spending something like 25% of its GDP on arms , and others are not far behind . |
| 19 | He made himself wake finally and lay under the covers feeling weak and hot , as though he had been spending energy incessantly all night . |
| 20 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 21 | As already explained , in the years since Chernobyl the nuclear industry had been spending increasing sums of money on publicity and advertising . |
| 22 | And he had been spending a fortune , perhaps as much as £300,000 , on her . |
| 23 | It became apparent that the business was haemorrhaging cash because John 's partner had been spending it unwisely and indiscriminately . |
| 24 | Peter , 19 , from Penbury , Kent , had been spending the summer in northern Kenya before going to university . |
| 25 | Surprised bosses thought 46-year-old Terry had been spending the day wrapped up in bed . |
| 26 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 27 | It was after he had been spending a Sunday with her that the accident happened . |
| 28 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 29 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 30 | Altogether there were forty of us , all from Fontanellato apart from a shipowner from Genoa who had been spending a holiday in his house in the country . |