Example sentences of "they spend on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are told that the global military expenditure every year amounts to £235,000 million , twice as much as the nations spend on health , and half as much again as they spend on education . |
| 2 | And I was appalled as to how much they spend on publicity . |
| 3 | With urban land prices rising rapidly across the Third World , construction companies build high-rise units mainly to maximise their return on what they spend on land . |
| 4 | The money they spend on research ! |
| 5 | It 's almost worth advertising alcohol just to preserve the lobbying the brewers indulge in to prove that it does n't encourage young people to drink , just for the sight of their endless statistics that prove that all this money they spend on advertising is n't making anybody buy their product : run this by me again , why are you doing it ? |
| 6 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 7 | For accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 1989 , ‘ large publicly accountable companies ’ are obliged to disclose the amount they spend on R&D . |