Sentence examples for spending maintaining from inspiring English sources

Despite the worldwide financial crisis, caviar is among a select group of luxury goods that has weathered the downturn in consumer spending, maintaining a wholesale price of about 1,000 euros a kilogram ($590 a pound) for most varieties.

The report suggested consumer spending maintained its weaker tone into the second quarter as high gasoline and food prices continue to stretch household finances.

Keeping a diary will help you save, monitor what you are spending, maintain a record of your accounts.

But latterly the money that could be better used elsewhere was being spent maintaining the lakes.

The more money he makes, the more he spends, maintaining a Chelsea workshop that employs a staff of a hundred and twenty-five.

My trial day was spent maintaining some of these backyard farmyards with the lovely farmer Hilary, and some of the customers who wanted to take part.

So at the moment we have a central library that is looking increasingly decayed because no money is being spent maintaining it, and some very rundown community libraries".

Britain's offshore fields have gushed for longer than pioneers expected; as a result, much time and cash must be spent maintaining ageing kit.

The rest of each session was spent maintaining position while waiting for a wave or in brief, intense bursts of paddling to catch a wave.

"Traditional infrastructure is often so complex that most of the IT budget is spent maintaining the status quo, not innovating or creating new products," Frame says.

The MPs on the culture, media and sport committee go so far as to suggest that the money might well have been better spent maintaining public service content on C4's main service.