"proceed to spend" is a valid phrase in written English, and is frequently used in formal contexts.
It implies a planned, deliberate spending of, for example, money, time, or attention on something. For example: "After consulting with financial advisors, the board of directors proceeded to spend the company's funds on a new project."
The spectacle was a far cry from typical hip-hop shows, at which performers often appear onstage hours late and then proceed to spend more time giving instructions to their D.J.'s than actually rapping.
You can pick up a copy of Drew Barrymore's Allure on Dec. 25th -- and proceed to spend your Christmas walking down '90s memory lane.
You wake up on a floor at 6 AM and literally roll into a gnarly Econoline 15-passenger, where you proceed to spend the next thirteen hours with no shower and no stops except for roadside cheese sandwiches and Dr. Pepper.
In a group of 38 American tourists from the Smithsonian and the National Trust (some of whom have saved and dreamed for a lifetime to see Egypt's towering pyramids and pharaonic tombs), we land unwittingly amidst the uprisings, and proceed to spend several days moving just ahead of the mounting danger.
This April when I touched down in Santiago de Cuba, and had the Cuban airport security check my luggage (using a drug sniffing dog), one day before I would proceed to spend the next twenty five running across Castro's Cuba, I was mildly curious as to whether any major American news source would care.
Then, opening up, Diskin proceeded to spend the next ten minutes describing his concerns about Israel's Arab-Israeli population.
So they proceeded to spend modest sums with the assurance that they would get a check in early November to repay the initial outlay.
He proceeded to spend 10 minutes on an iPhone in a slapdash attempt to register for an additional class before the tryout began.
In 1995, Mr. Haslekaas attended the auction of the church, which his Norwegian great-grandfather helped build, and proceeded to spend $6,000 rescuing practically the entire contents.
Solomon's tactics, making a financial "Willie Horton" of Bernard Madoff and proceeding to spend a quarter of the interview on discussion of him, were despicable.
Except the oil company proceeded to spend decades lying about what they knew, and ensured the disaster would be as profound as possible.
