Sentence examples for spend a certain amount of from inspiring English sources

So I just made up my mind I was going to spend a certain amount of money every year to travel.

They're so goddam crunchy" — they spend a certain amount of time at the training table trading restaurant tips for steakhouses and all-you-can-eat buffets.

But the reality is that if you have certain sensitive information, you've got to spend a certain amount of money to secure it".

Waitrose gives away more than 1m cups of tea and coffee every week, along with free newspapers when shoppers spend a certain amount of money.

And to encourage more volunteerism, he would offer tax incentives to New Yorkers who spend a certain amount of time each year sprucing up parks.

Asked why the right to sleep in a box was worth defending, Mr. Betancourt explained it this way: "After you spend a certain amount of time in the streets, as difficult as your circumstances are, they become a routine.

He spent a certain amount of time listening to jazz on Fifty-second Street and a certain amount of time at more social night clubs.

There was a time in your life when you were spending a certain amount of energy writing about other writers, especially Eastern European writers.

As it happens, I've written a lot of books, which means I must have spent a certain amount of time alone in a room… You know it never used to be like that.

Her son, Jack Dafoe a public-policy researcher, three years out of Yale, who has his father's face and his mother's piercing curiosity told me, "Liz still spends a certain amount of time hiding herself.

The prosecutor added: "We have over 130 who we know have come back from Syria, and spent a certain amount of time there, and we can hardly follow up on them.