Example sentences of "to spend [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've got quite a lot of hair but it 's fine so , to make it look good , I need to spend a great deal of effort on it . |
| 2 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 3 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 4 | Third on fuel costs , the inquiry is likely to spend a great deal of time looking at coal-price assumptions , because Sizewell would be uneconomic if coal prices do not experience any real increase . |
| 5 | The use of the word ‘ lazy ’ here does not imply that those animals are indolent or inefficient but rather that their specialisation is so finely tuned and successful that they are able to spend a great deal of their daily lives sitting , gazing and sleeping . |
| 6 | But some in-laws do manage to get along remarkably well together , even when they have to spend a great deal of time in each other 's company . |
| 7 | Clara dreaded the vacations , and tried to whittle them down as much as she could , by semi-obligatory study courses , and quasi-essential trips to the continent to learn the languages she was studying , but despite these nibblings and thefts , she still found herself obliged to spend a great deal of time each year in Hartley Road . |
| 8 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 9 | You see I ca n't afford to spend a great deal on anyone this year . |