Does this couple, like every other devoted couple, amount to less than the sum of its parts?
Post-war American governments devoted vast amounts of money, attention and military might to rebuilding or being the midwife of economies and democracies in Europe and Asia, with spectacular results.
The Bush and Gore campaigns have devoted large amounts of time and money to the state; recent newspaper polls here show the race to be a dead heat.
He's devoted huge amounts of resources to making machines think more like human beings and envisions far-out uses for the technology in the future.
Recently Mr. Perlman has devoted increasing amounts of time to working with musicians nearly as young as he was when he made those precocious appearances.
One of the chief complaints against Mr. Davis is that he has devoted excessive amounts of time and energy to fund-raising.
In addition, the vendor has devoted large amounts of research and development dollars on service and order provisioning and management features for carriers.
Since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, television news programmes in the US have devoted generous amounts of airtime to the mystery.
"Industry devoted enormous amounts of energy, even threatening to leave the state".
While working for his father, he devoted increasing amounts of time to cricket practice.
