He gave up fast food and began to spend countless hours at the gym.
So who has time to spend countless hours tangled in yarn, adjusting tension and counting warp threads?
And yes, millions of people will surely spend countless hours, and dollars, on the fabulous computer toy that is Spore.
That said, we spend countless hours talking about all the characters and with every new episode, we understand them a bit more.
Most spend countless hours a week practicing and playing in wind bands or community orchestras or chamber groups, in many cases more than one.
"My father was a great outdoorsman," says Cash. "From when I was about six we would spend countless hours together in the woods or on a lake.
"Designers spend countless hours doing and redoing, testing, creating, thinking, and then some counterfeiter comes along and just takes it away," said Mr. Schumer.
So do the intelligence and law enforcement officers who spend countless hours disrupting plots and protecting all Americans, including politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows".
His love of reading saw him spend countless hours in public libraries: he described his qualifications as "a sort of MA (Penguin)".
Now I tried to imagine it on an epic scale: trek all the way to Iceland, spend countless hours and thousands of dollars and return empty-handed.
The few researchers with access to the archive thus spend countless hours sifting through material before they find what they need.
