Example sentences of "spend [adj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tynagh Mines ' manager , David Fitzgerald , denied all the allegations and said that the company had spent half a million pounds on safety work and intended spending a further £200,000 . |
| 2 | The council 's already spent half a million pounds on renovating the priory , making safe the dilapidated tithe barn next door and landscaping the grounds . |
| 3 | RCA in America claim to have spent half a million dollars promoting my last album but it was obviously money spent in stupid ways . |
| 4 | Swindon Town are spending half a million pounds on replacing captain Colin Caulderwood … with 22 year old Adrian Whitbread from Orient . |
| 5 | A new University is spending half a million pounds on TV advertising to attract more students . |
| 6 | The Department of the Environment alone by 1988 was spending half a billion pounds out of an Action for Cities total , involving most Home departments , estimated at £3 billion . |