Sentence examples for spend something from inspiring English sources

"We spend something like one third of our adult lives at work," says Franklin, the assessor.

He told reporters that Congress's approach was "Don't just stand there, spend something".

Later he wisecracked to reporters that the motto of Congress was "don't just stand there, spend something".

"Britain will spend something like a decade inching to some sort of new economic and political settlement," he says.

Yet despite being a welfare case, the company is allowed to spend something like $400 million over 20 years to indulge its vanity.

Economies are a leap of faith to begin with; if I spend something — for the greater good of someone's business somewhere — it may come back in return someday.

To cope with its recurrent flooding, Miami Beach has already spent something like a hundred million dollars.

Plus an entire "special" that spent something like an hour taking the mickey out of the Indians.

What we're fighting for is spending something like a hundred dollars per person on health.

He figures Cue spends something under $100,000 a month with Amazon but would spend "probably $2 million to do it ourselves, without the speed and flexibility".

All told, wealthy liberals spent something close to $200 million in an effort to oust George W. Bush in 2004, setting an entirely new standard for outside spending.