Example sentences of "have spent more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Property expert Kevin Dibben said : ‘ It 's a nice house but he has spent more time and effort on the property than it is worth . |
| 2 | Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling , putting in up to 150 miles a week . |
| 3 | It is a fact that Ken Schofield has spent more hours than he cares to recall on the " South African affair " . |
| 4 | This Government has spent more money on training than any other Government si in our history , two and a half times as much in real terms as when Labour were in office . |
| 5 | But I think the club has spent more money than it could afford . |
| 6 | In such circumstances the figures for those activities will rise as a result of the police having spent more time and money in dealing with them . |
| 7 | It was nearly six-thirty by the time she arrived back at the hotel , having spent more time wandering through Strøget on the way there . |
| 8 | Leith went to her office on Monday , having spent more of the weekend working on facts and figures , yet finding she was glad it was Monday morning . |
| 9 | Even the most positivist anthropologist , knowing the statistical significance of categories of population , would not have been immune from a romantic curiosity , would perhaps have spent more time visiting this wastefully subsidized relic of the past than a cool assessment of scientific value could warrant . |
| 10 | Singer John Matthews says : ‘ If we 'd have spent more time on the record we probably would have ruined it . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps you and I would have spent more time together . |
| 12 | But I think we could of gone down to British Home Stores , but we both probably would have spent more , than , |
| 13 | I would have loved to have spent more time out there where the action is , but it just was n't practical . |
| 14 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 15 | One only wishes that he had spent more time gaining a perspective outside America . |
| 16 | There was no sign of the son , an undersized , sly creature who had spent more time in prison than out of it ever since he had been old enough to get himself down to the city and into trouble . |
| 17 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 18 | As an example of US energy inefficiency , he said he had spent more time going to and from meetings during the Houston summit than in the meetings themselves . |
| 19 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 20 | You 've spent more on the others . |
| 21 | Because I 've spent more time trying it . |
| 22 | Few divers have spent more time under waters as diverse as the Pacific Ocean and the Red Sea . |
| 23 | In fact , by the time they reach the age of 18 , most children have spent more time in front of the TV set than at school . |
| 24 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |