Example sentences of "it spend [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It spent £18 million in 1980 , but plans to reduce that to £13 million in 1984 . |
| 2 | In a report to next month 's General Assembly , the Kirk 's Board of Social Responsibility — the largest voluntary social work agency in Scotland — says it spent £1.5 million from its own reserves in the past 17 months to keep its 42 eventide homes going . |
| 3 | Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany . |
| 4 | Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business . |
| 5 | In 1980 , it spent $1.5 billion on research , more than the whole of the Japanese computer industry . |
| 6 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 7 | In 1981 it spent £252 million . |
| 8 | Instead of spending $7 million on back-up equipment to catch the particles that its existing scrubbing plant could not cope with , it spent $1.7 million by periodically spraying its outdoor piles of iron ore and coal , by paving or periodically wetting down the company roads , by planting trees and grass to trap wind-blown particulates , and arranging shuttle buses so that employees reduced the use of their own vehicles around the site . |
| 9 | ICI itself acted as a new home when in 1985 it spent $750m on the chemicals operations of Beatrice , an American group then being bought by Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts , a firm similar to Hanson . |
| 10 | In 1976 it spent £24 million on renewing its railways and structures — £48 million at today 's prices . |
| 11 | Between 1973 and 1985 it spent £25 million pounds on a process to remove about 95 per cent of the mercury from its runcorn effluents , which has an annual operating cost of £1.5 million . |
| 12 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 13 | It spends £100,000 in buying American shares ( that are located in the USA for the purposes of Schedule D , Case V ) and receives £2,000 . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems to me that if one sets up a quango and it spends 26% of the money disbursed on its own administration , that is a pretty high percentage . ’ |