Example sentences of "[be] spending [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're spending £30 million over three months on advertising . |
| 2 | This year , we 're spending £100,000 on books — over three times more than when we opted out . ’ |
| 3 | At one time , the marquess was said to have been spending £1,200 a week on drugs . |
| 4 | BT has been spending £2bn a year on upgrading the country 's telecommunications networks and exchanges from analogue to digital , and it can now offer dial-up end-to-end digital connections to over 90% of UK businesses and almost as many private households . |
| 5 | CHICKEN sales are expected to be at least double those of turkey this Easter and in an attempt to close the gap , the British Turkey Federation are spending £100,000 on a national press campaign stressing ‘ British turkey get 's everyone 's vote ’ . |
| 6 | We are spending £4 billion on cleansing the Mersey Basin alone , and the Thames now has the cleanest metropolitan estuary in the world . |
| 7 | This Conservative Government are spending £6 billion less on provision for housing than was provided in 1979 . |
| 8 | ‘ Private companies are spending £2.2bn a year on their employees ’ health care , which is a tenth of the National Health Service budget of £22bn , ’ he said . |
| 9 | This year we are spending £42.2 million on our northern region urban programme . |
| 10 | Sky are spending £5 million this month on a lavish advertising campaign in a bid to sell more dishes and win more armchair fans . |
| 11 | It seems to me that , if we are spending £3 million on training someone to fly a fast jet and if , when he leaves the force — there are a lot of people leaving before their time is up — he is not being used in the reserve forces , that is a tremendous waste of a national resource . |
| 12 | ‘ They are spending £20,000 or £30,000 updating the software , rather than £250,000 renewing the whole thing . |
| 13 | The highest earners ( £800 a week-plus ) are spending £93.20 a week on motoring , 15 times more than the lowest earners ( less than £60 ) , who spend £6.10 a week . |
| 14 | Does the Prime Minister recognise that , because of privatisation , the water companies are spending £28 billion on improving water quality , including schemes in west Norfolk to upgrade drinking water and clean up our beaches ? |
| 15 | Cellnet is said to be spending £3 million a week improving the cellular phone network , and until recently Racal was spending £2 million a week . |
| 16 | the industry ought to be spending £310 million a year to maintain the system in its existing state . |
| 17 | " We will be spending £26 billion over the next 10 years to put right years of neglect , and that includes investments in sewage works . " |
| 18 | Hewlett-Packard is reckoned to be spending $1,000m annually on the on-going development of its Precision Architecture RISC chip set . |
| 19 | Two years ago , we were spending $4 billion a year on exploration and development to sustain our production of about 1.5 billion boe/d . |
| 20 | Instead of increasing the flexibility of our defence forces by rectifying weaknesses in our conventional defences , the British government is spending £10 000 million on the Trident strategic missile system and is encouraging the US also to divert resources into dangerous non-essentials like cruise missiles . |
| 21 | I WAS amazed to read that the Government is spending £2.5 million to provide new factories and warehouses in Liverpool to offset the closure of the Camell Laird shipyard . |
| 22 | In County Durham , for example , British Coal is spending £6 million a year keeping its remaining coastal pits dry but now has no operational interest in the network of 11 pumping stations . |
| 23 | The Opposition are so rattled about it that NALGO is spending £2 million to advertise against it . |
| 24 | LOVELESS Michael Jackson is spending £57 million on a giant wedding chapel in gambling capital Las Vegas . |
| 25 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |
| 26 | A group headed by Chevron and Conoco is investing £2 billion in developing the difficult Britannia complex ; an Amoco-led consortium is spending £1.5 billion on the Everest and Lomond fields and the new pipeline ; and the new Armada project is provisionally estimated by County NatWest Woodmac to involve investment of almost £800m . |
| 27 | France is spending £24 billion on education this year ( 1990 ) . |
| 28 | Rocco 's shares fell 5p to 164p after news he is spending £64m on the 52-strong Relais motorway chain in France . |
| 29 | It is spending £25m to acquire 70% of state-owned Polish margarine and oils business SZPT Olmex . |
| 30 | ICI is spending £66m on the plant ( Chem . |