Example sentences of "[adv] spend a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , which had long spent a disproportionate amount on higher and secondary as opposed to primary education , began to implement a programme to establish universal primary education . |
| 2 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |
| 3 | This is a splendidly versatile way of patterning so spend a little time trying it out before you start on ‘ moon craters ’ . |
| 4 | This is because poorer families who see the superior goods being consumed by their richer neighbours will attempt to ‘ keep up with the Joneses ’ and so spend a large fraction of their incomes . |
| 5 | CDC has already spent a great deal of time and money on an effort to stabilise the product , but faced with pressure from customers trying to use it , is hoping to speed the process up . |
| 6 | Dana and I had already spent a few weekends in Madrid , travelling by bus via Avila through wonderful country . |
| 7 | Having just spent a few nights in a major-accident ward , I 'd rather be late than hurry . ’ |
| 8 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 9 | In fact , Britain under the Tories already spends a higher proportion of GDP on education than either Germany or Japan . |
| 10 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 11 | Pigs normally spend a large amount of their day searching for food and consuming food , and pigs which have no food for a long period often exhibit sham-chewing . |
| 12 | I once spent a whole rehearsal on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann , which is for me one of the most tragic things in opera . |
| 13 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 14 | And while she always spent a great deal of time and money on their Christmas presents , they only ever sent her a packet of scented drawer liners or a box of soap . |
| 15 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 16 | The council is still spending a fair amount of its budget on tourism . |
| 17 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 18 | They had always spent a few weeks every year in Ireland , relaxing and visiting old friends . |
| 19 | While Siemens Nixdorf still spends a total £600m or 13% of revenues on research and development , and is certainly still investing in mainframes , Bearpark would provide no indication of how much . |
| 20 | None of us is starving , however , and we all have more than enough clothes to wear , but we still spend a large part of our lives worrying about our material needs — what should we eat ? |
| 21 | Fergie would probably spend a few pounds on it — if he could find it . |
| 22 | Where I could also spend a great deal of time talking about our common enemies , our mutual friends and some of the similarity and our aims for world peace and again , I 'm gon na leave that for the statesmen and the politicians . |
| 23 | BT will also spend a high $1.3 billion on a 20% stake in MCI ; about $130m of that will be spent immediately on an initial 4.9% shareholding . |
| 24 | He also spent a great deal of time strolling around New York 's back streets observing down-and-outs to see if he could steal anything from them — for the role , that is . |
| 25 | She also spent a hellish week in a Swiss blizzard . |
| 26 | I doubt if any gorgio woman would still be a virgin the morning after spending a whole night with a Romany man . ’ |
| 27 | But she also spends a great deal of time walking and studying , in the day , at night . |
| 28 | ‘ So with the exception of the pharmaceutical industry , which traditionally spends a high proportion of turnover on research , we fare very well . ’ |
| 29 | GPs probably spend a similar proportion of time on patients who are not in immediate danger . |
| 30 | Fourthly , carers who were managing to retain full-time jobs often spent a considerable amount of money each week on substitute care , it statutory day care services were not adequate . |