Example sentences of "we spend [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Why do we spend such vast amounts of money on the service ? |
2 | Together we spent many painstaking months refining the best features from all the entries into one package . |
3 | Annabelle 's late father , George , used to enjoy a game of football/a game of golf/fixing the car on Saturday afternoons , and we spent many happy hours together sailing/relaxing often accompanied by Steven . |
4 | From our base in our waterfront digs , we spent many harrowing weeks combing Makassar 's harbour , interrogating the scowling seamen of every arriving prahu , and exploring the coastal villages with Abu . |
5 | There was less violence , the ‘ appels ’ were not so severe , and we spent much more time in the classroom doing theoretical work for our exams . |
6 | And we spent two blissful days far from the stresses of war-news , work and the irritations of transport and billeting . |
7 | Suffice to say we spent two fruitless days at Glastonbury and left as we came with only two scraps of information : first , Hopkins had been a monk at the abbey , and secondly had discovered his famous riddle there . |
8 | we spent all these years on this and |
9 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
10 | In nineteen eighty seven , eighty eight , we spent ninety nine point eight eight percent of what the government thought . |
11 | In nineteen eighty eight and eighty nine we spent ninety eight point two nine percent and in eighty nine ninety , ninety seven point one four percent of what the government thought we need we actually underspent in their terms . |
12 | We spent some 200 hours , in Committee and on the Floor of the House , spelling out the fact that the tax was unfair , unworkable and extremely expensive to administer . |
13 | We spent some more time moving around Leicester , going from tavern to tavern trying to discover if anyone else had seen Irvine 's strange companion . |
14 | We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary . |
15 | The problem here is , if , if , if , if , the , what 's , what 's happened is if , if that , if anything gets bought there in the practice , that then is taken out of our remunerations , so if we spend six hundred pounds on the stuff in the prac in , in , in the reception area |