Sentence examples for spent stood from inspiring English sources

Apparently, dating someone who happens to make a living from playing records to strangers is basically a nightmarishly unending round of nights spent stood about like a lemon, playing gooseberry with your bae, as wave after wave of flirty onlookers clamour for a personal 'after-party'.

Spending stood at 56.6 percent of the gross national product in 2011, 11 percent more than in Germany, while taxes amounted to 50.8 percent of the gross domestic product, 6 percent more than they were for its neighbor across the Rhine.

Those with pennies to spend stand in line on one side and buy their water from a metered tap.

The global contact center spend stands at $300-350 300-350 billionch third-party oftsourcing accounts for 20-25 percent.

Neither should the fear of deficit spending stand in the way of the need to combat terrorism abroad and protect against terrorist attacks at home.

Though Pirelli and Benetton will pay the sellers an 80percentt premium, the $7 billion they will spend stands to give them more than half of Telecom Italia, whose market capitalization is roughly $65 billion.

Neither Ms. Collins nor her spending stood out in the shop, Ms. Traynor said.

Last year, American defense spending stood at just 2.9percentt of G.D.P., compared with an average for the years 1948-98 of 6.8percentt.

Consumer spending stood out as the only significant bright spot in the Commerce Department's otherwise bleak update on the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic activity, which has now posted three straight quarters of decline.

But that number would be more than $130 million below where spending stood in 2010.

In 2012, spending stood at £190m at this point, while in 2012, it was £150m.