Sentence examples for spending something from inspiring English sources

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

"I think, relatively speaking, if you build a new commercial airliner you're going to be spending something like a billion pounds to achieve that," he says.

That calculation, which suggests that the E.U. will be spending something like €400 billion, or $545 billion, over two years, includes increased social spending as unemployment rises.

Democrats have a healthy fear of Karl Rove, born out of experience, but there is no way the $13 million he influences through the group American Crossroads is going to reshape an election in which the two parties are spending something like $1.4 billion collectively.

In response, Netflix did something that "The Long Tail" didn't predict: in 2011, it decided to become a studio itself, spending something like a hundred million dollars to create an American version of the British political drama "House of Cards," starring Kevin Spacey.

Osborne will still make deep cuts to public spending, but they won't be as deep – because he is spending something like £27bn given to him by Robert Chote and the Office for Budget Responsibility, who have drastically improved their forecasts for public finances.

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

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

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

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

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".