I don't always spend unholy quantities of dosh in a single week on clothes.
You already know you're going to anyway; why waste time dithering?" "OK," she says, and then she buys it (online; it hurts less when you spend vast quantities of money on the internet).
If, however, we spend large quantities of international contracting funds quickly and with insufficient oversight it can fuel corruption, finance insurgent operations, strengthen criminal patronage networks and undermine our efforts in Afghanistan".
The idea that many of us would spend vast quantities of time shaking our limbs in gymnasiums would, a century ago, have provoked the ridicule of manual workers whose physically demanding jobs meant they were hardly in need of a workout.
Few Africans can afford the expensive medicines that mitigate the effects of AIDS; and few drug companies will spend the quantities of money necessary to develop a malaria vaccine if most of the people likely to want it are too poor to buy it.
And, in recent months, Facebook policy staffers have had to spend substantial quantities of man-hours penning multi-page explanations for all sorts of aspects of the company's operations to try to appease angry politicians.
Make your choices based on the amount of feed you're willing to spend on, quantity of milk produced, the size of your farm, temperament, what's available in your area, what size of cow you can handle, among other things.
The X Prize wasn't only about getting people in and out of space; it was about a new way of spending unusual quantities of private money.
THERE is nothing wrong with spending vast quantities of time fantasizing about imaginary realities far away from the cheerless hardships of modern life.
In fact, it's a necessity: "Spending large quantities of time in a space allows me to actually create something – to change the orientation, texture and feel of a space, and to change myself as a result of it.
