Sentence examples for spend from inspiring English sources

"Officials spend a lot of time generating proposals – many not commissioned by politicians.

I'd rather spend Christmas here than in the cells".

You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied.

In fact, the more we spend at Christmas, the more we waste.

For all their moaning about Chinooks or body armour, they make the decisions on where to spend (and overspend) the money, sorting it out between themselves before going to elected ministers.

It's about starting to spend a little bit more money on marketing.

In many African countries, those at risk often have to spend huge amounts of money and travel hundreds of miles to reach heart specialists concentrated in main urban centres.

"Of those surveyed, 91% are willing to spend more than they do on their health," he says, and clearly this group isn't constrained by a lack of resources.

According to the Moorland Association, just 10% of moor owners' £52.5m annual spend on land management comes from government subsidies – the rest is private money, brought in by grouse.

"He phrased it well, said we spend more time thinking about our next inevitable failure than our next success.

An island that now charges you thousands of euros to spend a couple of nights in one of the tiny white cave dwellings that cling to its cliffs, magically transformed into some of the most glamorous hotels in the world.