Sentence examples for have spent something from inspiring English sources

A couple - and nowadays that means same-sex couples as well as traditional partnerships - is likely to have spent something of the order of £15,000 for the three cycles it is likely to have taken should they be fortunate enough to become pregnant.

"A couple - and nowadays that means same sex couples as well as traditional ones - is likely to have spent something of the order of £15,000 for the three cycles it is likely to have taken should they be fortunate enough to become pregnant".

"I've spent something like 16 hours on the phone and it still isn't resolved," she says.

As they note, the LDA has spent something like £3bn in its short life and most Londoners would be hard pressed to point towards anything specific that they value as a result of that spending.

We've spent something like a $1bn over the last 10-12 years on antibiotic research and development.

That's amazing, given that the financial services industry has spent something like $1 million per member of Congress lobbying on financial reform issues, which by some estimates amounts to about five active lobbyists per Congressperson.

But for now, Microsoft has spent something in the neighborhood of $10 billion — using back of the envelope math — on buying Phone, Phone losses and Surface losses, not to mention Surface development costs pre-launch.

"Since 2010 alone, I've spent something like $11,285 on highlights.

You might donate money you would have spent on something else, like the ex-smoker who gave to the Neediest Cases Fund in 1973 (PDF) by saving what she would have spent on cigarettes for 58 weeks.

"This is time I could have spent doing something productive".

Every minute spent waiting is a minute we could have spent doing something productive.