verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a consumer/spending boom (= a sudden increase in the amount people spend )
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Various factors caused the consumer boom.
a spending pattern
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The bank’s computer can detect unusual spending patterns.
a spending pledge BrE:
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I asked him to clarify Labour’s spending pledges.
a spending programme
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The government’s spending programme is the subject of vigorous debate.
a spending review
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Extra money was promised in last summer’s spending review.
buying/spending habits (= the kinds of things you buy regularly )
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The recession will mean that many people will be changing their spending habits.
compulsive gambling/overeating/spending etc
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Compulsive overspending in these days of credit cards has become more common.
consumer spending ( also consumer expenditure formal )
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Higher taxes will reduce consumer spending.
cost/spend/pay a small fortune
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It must have cost him a small fortune.
cut spending/borrowing
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In the 1990s, governments worldwide cut military spending.
defence spending/expenditure
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There were plans to cut defence spending by one billion pounds.
government spending
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Government spending on health care totals about $60 billion a year.
have/spend Christmas
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No one wants to spend Christmas alone.
pocket money/spending money British English (= a small amount of money that parents regularly give their children )
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How much pocket money do you get?
public spending
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the Government’s public spending plans
spend a fortune
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You don’t have to spend a fortune giving your family healthy meals.
spend a night somewhere (= sleep somewhere )
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We spent two nights at the Grand Hotel.
spend a vacation
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Where did you spend your vacation?
spend an evening (= use an evening doing a particular thing )
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He spent many evenings alone in his room.
spend an hour
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I spent an hour reading.
spend money (on sth)
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More money should be spent on training.
spend the afternoon somewhere/doing sth
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We decided to spend the afternoon in town.
spend the day doing sth
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I spent the day shopping with my friends.
spend time
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I’m going to spend some time with my family.
spend time/three months/six years etc in jail
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Griffiths spent three days in jail after pushing a policeman.
spend your childhood
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This is the house where the artist spent most of his childhood.
spend your youth
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She spent her youth in India.
spending cuts
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His proposals could involve spending cuts of up to £12 billion.
spending limits
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There are strict spending limits imposed by law on all candidates.
spending money (= an amount of money that you can spend on anything you want )
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We had £500 spending money saved for our holiday.
spending money
spent...working life
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He spent all his working life in a factory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Even with the present trade restrictions it is estimated that we spend more than £350 million on liquor abroad every year.
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Labor leaders worry that workers will end up spending more and more home time as well as office time working.
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As a general rule the only way to spend more per student was to have fewer students.
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The state spent more than $ 80, 000 to fight their lawsuit.
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Special offer of two nights five-star B &038; B for anyone spending more than £800.
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At forty-seven, Floyd had spent more than half his life with the Agency.
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Some farmers spend more on workers and some more on machinery.
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Card holders not only spend more , but are more loyal.
most
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You went through a period when you spent most of your time revising your existing works.
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Interbrew had spent most of 1997 negotiating with Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum.
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Labour politicians have spent most of their working lives promising to protect press freedom.
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You spend most of your time with your partner that you otherwise would be spending with other people.
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He spent most of it that night.
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They spent most of a record stuffing making big-hearted tackles and chasing shadows.
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Maremont pushed aside his business and civic work and spent most of the early summer barnstorming through Illinois.
together
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He hadn't loved Vanessa, but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they'd spent together here.
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Hours spent together are far more valuable than $ 500 worth of Babar wallpaper.
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We are a family that enjoys each other, relishing each day we're able to spend together .
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It is the most peaceful time he and I have spent together in at least two years.
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I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together .
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With such single-mindedness about their work, finding time to spend together is a challenge.
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It was all she had left of him and of the days they had spent together .
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Mr Yanase says he knows that this is simply the first of many Oshagatsu celebrations that we will spend together .
too
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Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.
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He spent too long telling us what he was going to tell us.
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If it could be avoided, Yggdrasil did not want to spend too much time on the Princetown Input.
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Then we begin to blame each other for spending too much.
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Inpart, it was felt that governments were spending too much.
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Secondly, later cultures had to spend too much time, resources, and energy defending themselves against invaders.
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I'd spent too much of my life running away as it was.
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I spend too much time, perhaps, studying role models.
■ NOUN
afternoon
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He spent the morning and afternoon looking round Edinburgh.
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Miles began to gleefully spend an hour each afternoon sitting among his books.
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Her mum, having spent the afternoon fearing the worst, met Sally from school and started questioning her right away.
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I spent the afternoon working hard, but feeling in communion with the outdoors.
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We spent the afternoon being entertained, eating, drinking and representing Chelmsford.
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Ward had spent the afternoon preparing his talk to the New-York Historical Society.
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I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freak accident.
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The carpenter was going to spend the afternoon with a woman who had once been a writer.
amount
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A&E staff spend a considerable amount of time in this type of work.
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We were spending an inordinate amount of time sending people to different meetings and not knowing what was going on.
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When those goals are respected, we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts .
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A typical business spends an amount equal to half of its annual earnings on employee health insurance.
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I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company.
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Sometimes I thought I really spent the greatest amount of my time in an airplane seat flying between places.
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Investors spend considerable amounts of effort, time and money in their investigations into the firms behind the shares.
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They spent small amounts of money on load limitation experiments, but decided to do nothing.
billion
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Every year we spend $ 200 billion in federal taxes simply to pay interest on that debt.
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He aims to halve unemployment to four percent by 2000 by spending about 10 billion kronor to educate and train workers.
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California has to spend nearly $ 2 billion a year educating undocumented children.
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The Air Force has spent $ 6 billion so far without producing a single plane.
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Mediobanca is expected to have to spend about 240 billion lire to complete the public offer.
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Clinton proposes to spend about $ 3 billion to help cities and states create new jobs and prepare individuals to hold them.
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The Midland, Mich.-based chemical giant expects to spend $ 1 billion to achieve these goals, he said.
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It plans to spend another $ 10 billion between now and 2003.
consumer
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With exports flagging, Thaksin wants to boost consumer confidence and spending .
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The government set off a consumer spending boom last year by deregulating shop hours.
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This year we expect consumers to spend some £80 billion on leisure - almost one quarter of consumer spending.
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With corporations announcing big layoffs and the federal government partly shut down, consumers seemed reluctant to spend money.
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Neither is it being used to give a spurt to consumer spending , he said.
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Both meant consumers spent more in an attempt to avoid paying higher sales tax.
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Manufacturers cut jobs during November in response to weak consumer spending .
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As the news of layoffs and plant closings came to dominate the headlines and the airwaves, consumer spending dropped off sharply.
cut
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This would prevent further cuts in spending on health and education in a country already running on empty.
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The former Republican senator from Maine brings priorities that spell hope for companies worried about further cuts to military spending .
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He is in favor of drastic cuts in social spending in order to balance the budget.
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If deficits still exceeded projections a year later, tax cuts and spending increases would be canceled again in 2002.
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He wants massive cuts in defense spending to free up federal revenue for schools, health care and domestic programs.
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Sharif has rejected a cut in defense spending , which swallows about 35 percent of the budget.
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Dini also laid out the accomplishments of his term in the areas of electoral reform and cuts in government spending .
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She also was briefly unconscious and sustained a cut lip, and spent the night at Roosevelt Hospital.
day
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Angel and Tess decided to spend a day together shopping on Christmas Eve.
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We spent an hour each day in the cockpit and three or four hours in the bleachers watching our classmates.
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In the past you had to spend around £12 per day .
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He spent the day before his death searching for the right gift.
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He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
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We spent the day washing windows five floors above the ground.
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A team of police have spent the day searching the area surrounding the house.
days
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We had spent some days in the hills of Mayo before deciding to go to Croagh Patrick.
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But Nash spent three days with the Timberwolves.
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They want to arrange their own lunches, decide for themselves how to spend some days .
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When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.
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He spent more than ten days in the neurology unit at Glasgow's Southern General before being allowed home.
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He spent his days at home, too disheartened to even turn on his computer.
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But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station.
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Pines residents spent their days in therapy learning about their own abuse and crimes.
dollar
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Each side has already spent several hundred million dollars on arms.
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Morris' description of how he spent unprecedented millions of dollars on polls and advertising is both stunning and disturbing.
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Those guys only wish that spending millions of dollars on a series of unrelated thrills had the power to transform them.
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R guys and spend zillions of dollars out of the box trying to get a hit.
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Marketing firms spend millions of dollars in the effort to find out what customers exist for planned or present services and products.
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The group has spent thousands of dollars trying to kill the McCain-Feingold bill.
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To defeat the 1990 California alcohol tax initiative, the alcohol industry spent thirty-eight million dollars .
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Companies are spending millions of dollars to drill for untapped onshore reserves.
evening
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I couldn't say where he spent that evening , not for certain.
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Many traders have spent the day evening their position ahead of those reports, traders said.
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I spent most evenings and every free period from college by your bedside.
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John Hall spent most of his evenings getting drunk with Jim Storter.
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He'd probably spend all evening making phone calls anyway.
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Four hours later I was driving to his house for dinner and we spent the evening just talking.
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They had spent a pleasant evening , and James had been most solicitous when he took his leave.
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Branson spent a frantic evening phoning around friends until he found her, and persuaded her to return.
fortune
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And he had been spending a fortune , perhaps as much as £300,000, on her.
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Most cities spend a fortune on their fire departments-often 20 percent of their entire general fund.
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We spend a fortune on the latest time-saving gadgets.
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And that's one reason why I spent a middle-sized fortune in the most advanced form in Intelloid in the universe.
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The estate already has spent a fortune litigating the matter.
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Denis, 71, has spent a fortune on his quest since the 1940s.
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Mr Levin has also spent a fortune in shareholder money to resolve the internal rivalries bedeviling his game plan for Time Warner.
government
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Double government spending on renewable energy research.
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That massive government spending has helped the construction industry survive the downturn.
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But there was no abrupt re-orientation of government spending towards the urban cores from 1977 to 1979.
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Only governments can afford to spend a quarter of a billion dollars each for the equivalent of plastic flamingos.
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The government has spent £1 billion on the Expo site alone and expects to recoup the cost from the visitors.
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This year the government is spending an estimated $ 13. 7 billion.
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The government spent lavishly to promote the process and promised a change for the better.
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Do I vote for lower taxes or do I vote for higher government spending ?
hour
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She spends hours looking after her nails.
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We spent an hour each day in the cockpit and three or four hours in the bleachers watching our classmates.
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I spend hours of time with my engineers, briefing, de-briefing, briefing again.
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Gerard Baker had a double-bladed throwing ax, and he and I spent an hour or so fooling around with it.
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I hope you can help I have spent hours with Memax etc trying to understand this.
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We spent an hour just holding the door for people going in and out of the mall.
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With whom she had spent six hours or so.
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The defendants were said to have spent two hours on the base and taken photographs of themselves painting the aircraft.
hours
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He had spent the last few hours being photographed with the wounded and giving endless interviews.
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The idea is to reserve the precious parking spaces that car owners spend hours digging out of the snow.
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Adelaida Parra coordinates seven literacy groups each week spending long hours travelling by bus between the distant shanty towns.
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Symphony telemarketers spend about four hours a night and some Saturday afternoons phoning county residents from undecorated offices in Copley Symphony Hall.
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Together with his wife Lilian, the Group quality circle facilitator spends hours of his spare time counting cross-stitching.
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Bennett advises employees who work overseas to spend a few hours visiting people when they come to the home office.
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I spend hours of time with my engineers, briefing, de-briefing, briefing again.
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This week, Nakamura and the others are spending at least 10 hours a day in classroom studies.
jail
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Griffin spent three days in jail after he refused to give a breath sample.
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After spending Friday night in jail , he posted $ 500, 000 bond and was released Saturday morning.
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He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
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Not because Sharpe already has spent time in jail .
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The plotters were arrested and spent a year in jail awaiting trial.
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After his arrest, he spent 12 hours in jail .
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He spent 28 months in jail and was sentenced to death.
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The man has ninety-one previous convictions, but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand.
life
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They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others.
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She has spent her life trying to make me feel guilty.
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At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.
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Cora J.. Rupp has spent her life immersed in art and wishes more of us would jump into the pool.
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I've spent my whole life looking back.
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She has spent most of her life nurturing little ones: two children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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Determined not spend my life in this manner, I continued to reapply to the postgraduate art courses.
lot
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The first woman spent the lot , the second spent half and banked the rest and the third invested the full amount.
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He has begun composing again, so he spends a lot of time in the drawing room.
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She spent a lot of time on the beach before she became ill.
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Over the days I spent a lot of time with Maureen.
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My local authority spends a lot of money simply issuing court summonses and trying to pursue people for non-payment.
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He spends a lot of time developing his people.
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I spend a lot of time on the bathroom scales - too much time - I really should throw them away!
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During my third year I spent a lot of time as a public defender.
million
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Jane Dee Hull and some development interests, who spent $ 1.2 million on the campaign.
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This year they will spend $ 83 million .
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To defeat the 1990 California alcohol tax initiative, the alcohol industry spent thirty-eight million dollars.
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The state of California would spend another $ 130 million to buy the redwood groves.
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There have been previous estimates that he had spent $ 12 million thus far.
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Wilson wants to spend $ 83 million to buy an off- the- shelf test to begin gauging the progress of students.
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He spent $ 4 million of his own money on the Arizona contest alone.
minutes
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Once each has had a turn, the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs.
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The movie lasts almost three hours and the two stars spend around 10 minutes together.
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Let's say you get up in the morning and spend 15 minutes sitting down for breakfast.
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For ten days we ate together, slept together, never spent two minutes apart.
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You'd probably spend no more than 30 minutes on each image.
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Even then I spent five minutes beating my thighs in the dark as the bus rolled down the road.
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Kasparov sealed his 41st move, spending 25 minutes over it, and upon resumption forced a winning endgame without difficulty.
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Then the players spent several minutes walking into the stands, mingling with fans and shaking hands.
money
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We want to talk to some one about the vast amounts of money that are spent on advertising.
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My writing is based on the assumption that the less money you spend , the more authentic your experience.
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Most of the money has been spent on improving the accommodation for students.
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Clearly, one feature of accountability is the need to show that public money is being spent in publicly approved ways.
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Female athletes, the survey found, received a little more than a third of the money spent on all athletic scholarships.
month
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They spent their first months , sometimes a year, bound tightly in swaddling bands.
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Roith spent his first nine months within the government listening to people.
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She spent the next 18 months putting a brave face on her illness, with lots of loving support from George.
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The plan was to fly to the Cook islands, and spend at least three months alone on a desert island.
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We would spend a month at Orange learning the basics of marching, singing, fitness, weapons drill and Legion history.
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But she refuses to spend the next seven months in hospital - and I can't say I blame her.
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I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place, the radical reformer of early nineteenth-century Westminster.
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People spend six months making their costumes.
months
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They spent their first months , sometimes a year, bound tightly in swaddling bands.
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Officers only spent 6 months in the field before they were moved back to the rear.
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Roith spent his first nine months within the government listening to people.
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This year, the state Legislature spent months debating a bill that would have banned the teaching of evolution as fact.
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The directors and actors had spent months in zoos recording the noises made by apes in emotional situations.
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I spent 16 months there in the Army!
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His hair was dishevelled, his beard had grown around his neck as if he had spent the past four months away from civilisation.
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They spent nine months developing a set of 98 goals in 12 general areas.
morning
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Now they have to spend their mornings planning budgets and their afternoons paying bills.
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The students spend several mornings a week at work sites associated with their divisions.
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Kevin Brown had spent the morning secluded in his office beneath the embassy.
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We spent our mornings snorkeling, spearfishing, and diving.
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He spent the morning and afternoon looking round Edinburgh.
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The wire was wound tight, the boys had spent all morning on the project.
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He spent the morning in jovial mood as guest of honour at a sponsorship of the arts award ceremony.
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They would spend the morning walking around the town and then visit Arijs in the Institution.
night
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He asked me whether I would prefer to see Bologna and spend the night there, or to drive directly to Verona.
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Are you sure this is all right, Stella? l mean my spending the night ?
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Twice Ferdinando had come down to spend the night with her and twice she had refused him without offering any adequate reason.
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I spend many a night , hollow and vigilant.
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But he went on to say he knew I'd spent the night at your place.
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After spending Friday night in jail, he posted $ 500, 000 bond and was released Saturday morning.
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Neither was I in the mood for long debates about where we were going to spend Saturday night .
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She spent the night at the Fairmont Hotel and was expected to fly out of the city early Friday.
rest
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You loved some one; you wanted to spend the rest of your life with them.
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We spent the rest of our month doing what we could for Maryvonne and Ichiro.
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As if saying you want to spend the rest of your life with the same person somehow makes you a flawed bore.
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Ciotilde then spent the rest of her life tending to the needy.
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She would call on them, and then she would spend the rest of the day shopping.
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Could I possibly spend the rest of my life in this holy place?
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I spent the rest of the morning being shown some of the routine duties of a catering assistant.
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A man can spend the rest of his experimental life chasing after a rainbow.
summer
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So guess where one of my weeks will be spent this summer ?
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She was coming from Washington State, where she had spent the summer picking apples.
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Well, do you remember when I was nineteen I spent the summer at the Sorbonne in Paris?
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At the beginning, I spent the whole summer reading everything du Maurier had written.
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When my father was ten, he spent the summer at an old fashioned sleep-away camp.
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I spent the whole summer in the sun, often in the sea or swimming pools.
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Buell recalls spending vacations and summer months picking garlic and onions in Gilroy and asparagus in Stockton.
time
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Decentralisation Finally we need to spend some time considering the role of decentralised administration in the public sector.
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But now because of the religious obligation I am spending more time with my family.
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Over the past year Alastair has spent more time cycling, putting in up to 150 miles a week.
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It hopes to maintain the small size of most classes by encouraging faculty to spend more time teaching.
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Charlie was a cockney by birth but he'd spent time in New York.
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Required to spend more time with Matilda, Agnes finds that her encounters with the curate dwindle and almost cease altogether.
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So I did not spend all my time peering upwards, searching the skies for those rumoured golden eagles.
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But remember, the goal of making a date is to spend time together, not necessarily to spend money together.
week
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They now live in Cumbernauld after spending a two week honeymoon in Torquay.
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Now I spend two hours a week on it, though, because my boss wants me to.
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I spent the next week and a half in a cold sweat.
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He had spent the week debating whether she was important to him or simply using him, or both.
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To be sure, retail spending figures released last week , also were stronger than expected.
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I was already spending $ 60 per week for supplement.
weekend
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So for a little over £100 it is easy to spend a long weekend in Paris in the spring, summer or whenever.
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The embassy spokesman said she had spent the weekend on a family visit to Britain, where she was born and raised.
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It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz.
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Harriman had spent the past weekend in Britain to attend the christening of a great-granddaughter, the employees said.
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On several occasions we spent weekends working furiously hard in small groups at drafts of attainment targets and programmes of study.
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Apart from a spot of cooking she was planning to spend the whole weekend on her sculpt.
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It is possible to spend a really full weekend in Paris for £150 each, and that's without holding back.
year
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Many of the speakers came from a local government background, having spent years in social services or as councillors.
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The trip awakened many boyhood memories, and Warnie remarked that they might do worse than spend their declining years there.
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The poor farmer spent a joyful year in her company, during which he learned many wonderful secrets.
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Andean birds spend much of the year in conditions almost as tough.
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He spent three years on it till he got into Sakata.
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William Chorleton had returned to spend his last two years at the School.
years
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Previously spend 17 years as an accountant in the bakery industry.
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After spending a few years in the U.S.
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Wilcock was to spend the next thirty years attempting to put it into practice.
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Lanterman spent his last years in the Assembly watching his legislation spread the seeds of homelessness, confusion and frustration.
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We had spent years pressing for this event and then battled for months about every detail of our plans.
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I spent all the Reagan years on this one case.
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The council commissioned a yearlong study of the problem, which looked at revenue and spending forecasts for 20 years .
■ VERB
force
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He had a bad attack of bronchitis during February and was forced to spend ten days in hospital.
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But because of the blizzard nearly all federal workers here were forced to spend another day away from the office.
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The entire party, even the persistent Mr Gould, was forced to spend an entire day on board ship.
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The tribes will be forced to spend money they badly need for other things to defeat it.
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But many feel that they are being forced to spend large amounts of time unnecessarily testing pupils and recording achievement.
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When they sue you, and lose, they should reimburse you for what they forced you to spend .
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For they meant that she was forced to spend the entire weekend in Jake's company.
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The fear of pending competition has forced network operators to spend heavily on upgrades.
increase
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This shows how intermediation via Euromarket banks can increase the volume of spending for a given monetary base.
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And park enthusiasts pressed for increased city spending on recreation programs and park staffing.
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We have increased the amount being spent on the coastguard service and a good coastguard service is available to our coastline.
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The company also increased marketing spending more than sixfold in 1995.
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We shall do this while continuing to increase spending on the essential public services on which we all depend.
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But then Wisconsin proved Washington wrong; while spending per family has increased , overall spending has declined with the caseload.
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Airplanes, promoted to save travel time, increase it as people spend more time traveling than ever before.
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In his first three years in office, Reagan increased defense spending , in real terms, by 40 percent.
plan
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Instead of ironing, as she'd planned , she'd spend the evening with her sketchpad.
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Instead, Thyssen Stahl plans to spend 750 million marks this year mostly on expanding high-tech domestic operations.
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She also received a rose arbour for her garden where she plans to spend more time in her retirement.
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Reed said the group plans to spend more than $ 750, 000 for its convention operations.
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After a winter of crisis in Britain's hospitals the Chancellor brought forward part of his planned summer spending round.
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The Taylors had planned to spend only a night here.
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The group plans to spend $ 500m expanding the existing diesel engine plant, creating 500 jobs in five years.
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Management was planning to spend $ 1 million to double the size of the tipping floor, where the trucks unloaded.
want
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The more it wants to limit spending , the less freedom local councils can have to raise their own revenue.
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Adults of a certain age might want to spend a couple of hundred dollars more for a 17-inch monitor.
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If it could be avoided, Yggdrasil did not want to spend too much time on the Princetown Input.
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They want leaders to spend time helping them understand how change can happen.
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They are now together and Robert says' I am so happy having found some one I want to spend my life with.
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Dole wants to spend more money on national defense.
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Verdict: An adequate performer if you don't want to spend more than £100.
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He said Democrats want to spend the money on education, training and other programs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a spent force
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But after four consecutive General Election defeats, is Labour a spent force?
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Jesse Jackson, who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, is a spent force.
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On the other hand, it would be a mistake to conclude that the urban-rural shift is a spent force.
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They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
spend the night with sb/spend the night together
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dani spends hours on the phone.
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During the recession, even the tourists weren't spending.
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Everyone spends more at Christmas - it's an important time for business.
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Fay spent a year in Italy teaching English.
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He spent the whole morning reading the report.
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I bought two skirts and a T-shirt and I only spent $50.
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I never seem to have any time to spend with the children.
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Mom spent most of the weekend cleaning up the house.
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She spends most of her salary on clothes.
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The government has promised to spend more money on education.
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They spend quite a lot of money each week on eating out.
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We spend about £85 a week on food.
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We spent a lot of energy looking for a nice apartment.
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We spent the week in a dingy motel off Route 9.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A diabetic, she spent two days in the hospital last week when stress sent her blood pressure rocketing.
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All travelers apparently will be spending more time outdoors this summer.
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At seventeen, he announces that he wants to spend his whole life in a ruined castle by the sea.
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Children are particularly at risk because of the amount of time they spend out of doors.
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Customers receive additional Clubcard points for every £2 spent on a Tesco Credit card.
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Now they spend quite a bit of their money, which is nice.
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Reagan and Gorbachev spent nine hours and forty-eight minutes in face-to-face negotiations.