Sentence examples for amount was spent from inspiring English sources

The largest amount was spent allowing businesses to write off billions spent on plants, machinery and equipment among other items.

"It's hypocritical to ignore the fact that a not insignificant amount was spent on buying weapons systems from EU members Germany and France".

More than half of that amount was spent by Verizon Wireless, including more than $4 billion the company paid for two licenses for metropolitan New York.

It said "a shamefully small amount" was spent on research - only £400,000 in 2011, compared with £11.5m spent on lung cancer.

An identical amount was spent on "Accountants, compliance & legal services," so one may assume that's where the money went.

$3K of that amount was spent buying an industry report, which I know we could have obtained for free had we put in the effort.

There is a huge amount being spent on marketing".

Why aren't we using billions of taxpayers' dollars (the amount being spent on reconstruction in Iraq) to rebuild America?

The bishop of Grantham, the Right Rev Tim Ellis, has also criticised the amount being spent on Thatcher's funeral.

Even those in Sierra Leone who supported the special court's aims balked at the amount being spent - $32m£17m7m).

Aid budgets have increased in recent years, but the amount being spent on education has fallen, Brown said.