Example sentences of "[noun] spend a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the KGB and GRU spend a lot of time and energy seeking the West 's technical secrets . |
| 2 | I was very fond of her when I was a child , and used to spend most of my holidays up here with her — my father was in the Consular Service , so my parents spent a lot of their time abroad . |
| 3 | Mildred spent a lot of time by the pond telling the frog-magician that she had n't forgotten him and that she would get him out if it was the last thing she did . |
| 4 | Although they were all very different ( Boy spent a lot of time noticing the differences in their physiques , techniques , cars and living rooms ) , they were also all the same in one respect . |
| 5 | wall for a start , plus the hum you get from these bloody things , in other words basically , as my parents spend a lot of time up in their top garden in the summer time , in the sunshine and all , you get the continual hum from that bloody |
| 6 | Cameron spent a lot of time sitting at his piano with the lid down , his fingers resting on the wood , whistling unconsciously . |
| 7 | Graham spent a lot of time staring out of the window — did you see him ? — but it was very quiet . |
| 8 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 9 | Manufacturers and retailers spend a lot of time — and money — on analysing customer motivation and planning advertising campaigns . |
| 10 | Geese spend a lot of time flying to other places . |
| 11 | Oh yeah , we 've got the analysis we 've got the questionnaires Okay what we 're gon na look at now is we gon na look at the work of Honey and Munnford and what Honey and Munnford spent a lot of time researching was people 's learning sides and they spent a lot of research and what they found out is that there are four different learning sides and we all learn in different ways . |
| 12 | Many of the early experimenters spent a lot of time trying to improve the tiny transparent crystals they had made — crystals which they erroneously believed were only silica or other hard but non-diamond crystals . |
| 13 | New Scientist spent a lot of space on US chemical weapons in Europe and on the ethics and value of seal slaughtering . |
| 14 | Gary spent a lot of time looking at walls to see if God would reveal His will by writing some messages on them . |
| 15 | Harvey spent a lot of time in the office and apart from asking me if I 'd spoken to Dawlish — a suggestion which I impassively denied — he did n't say much to me until the morning of the third day , which was a Tuesday . |
| 16 | Teams spend a lot of time in trying to pose each question clearly . |
| 17 | Sometimes customers spend a lot of time finding out the value of an item before applying . |
| 18 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 19 | He did n't totally sabotage the production but during the technical run-through when the cast spent a lot of time just standing about waiting for lighting and scenery and props to be adjusted — he made a point of whispering to Ingrid , putting his arm around her , making her giggle , while they both looked over at Therese . |
| 20 | I became a Market Gardener and my parents and sisters spent a lot of time not only on my costume but also in the decoration of my wheelbarrow . |
| 21 | Its critics argue that it is complex and confusing and requires people to spend a lot of their time attending meetings . |
| 22 | My local authority spends a lot of money simply issuing court summonses and trying to pursue people for non-payment . |
| 23 | ‘ People spend a lot of their hard-earned money on holidays , ’ observes sales director Ray Wilkins , ‘ and they need professional service and advice . |
| 24 | People spend a lot of time thinking about things which are beneficial to themselves ; consideration of welfare and the environment has a much larger element of unselfishness in it . |
| 25 | Since most people spend a lot of time in the bathroom , make it fun to be in . |
| 26 | People spend a lot of money ‘ learning ’ to talk — in presentation skills , influencing and negotiating , leadership , assertiveness and media training courses . |
| 27 | Many unemployed people are actually quite invisible in the sense of one of the things that happens when you 're unemployed is that you 're not actually being taken out of your home environment so much , and unemployed people spend a lot more of their time at home than erm do employed people . |
| 28 | Clinton spent a lot of time with the trio in Leckford Road . |
| 29 | Before he moved in , Bill spent a lot of time drawing sketches of the garden . |
| 30 | In the next few weeks Karen and Drew spent a lot of time together . |