Sentence examples for spent in the first from inspiring English sources

The stimulus was also backloaded, so that only a third was spent in the first year.

A fortune was spent in the first five years (1965-70).

The budget will be "a little above" what was spent in the first year of the campaign, Mr. Sweeny said.

But German companies are the most sought-after, with $209 billion spent in the first half of this year.

About $300 million was spent in the first four years after the Oslo peace accord of 1993.

Rather, it indicated that reimbursing parents was only paying what the town would, or should, have spent in the first place had officials initially developed a proper IEP.

Steidl has never lived anywhere but Göttingen, unless you count the many hours he has spent in the first-class cabins of Lufthansa.

One week spent in the third world will not necessarily turn students on to a life of selfless public service.

First quarter spending in 2010 was up 23percentt from the $1.12 million the Internet giant spent in the fourth quarter of 2009.

The US Chamber of Commerce reported that it spent a mind-boggling $34.7 million lobbying Congress in the third quarter of 2009 -- far surpassing the $10 million it spent in the first quarter and the $7.4 million spent in the second.

The total is $20,000 more than TransCanada spent in the previous quarter and nearly double the $220,000 it spent in the second quarter of 2011.