Sentence examples for once been spent from inspiring English sources

Smartphones, tablets and other devices have been taking in more and more money that might have once been spent on PCs.

But in diminishing the word (and, therefore, the role), by pouring energies into children that once was spent on the relationship that created those children, we have clearly swung too far the other way.

We are not close friends like we once were, spending every day together".

A pension can only be spent once and this policy could end up leaving retirees out of pocket.

The money can only be spent once and you will miss out on considerable potential growth by dipping into your fund early.

"However, that money can only be spent once and cannot be considered a long-term solution to the unprecedented funding reductions councils are currently facing," its chair Baroness Eaton said.

But once the money has been spent, they find themselves with no way to make a living.

Once he's finished a month of fasting, and once he's spent a few days in a cool place, it's time for an even cooler one – the fridge.

Talent increases in an individual through experience and the application of education, whereas commodities diminish in value over time: coffee, once drunk, is spent.

"You can make up time at the end of a race, but once you're spent, you're spent," Kevin Hanson said.

But it's an arbitrary line: when it's unspent, they refuse to quote; once it's spent, they are not allowed to know.