Sentence examples for spent to solve from inspiring English sources

Considerable efforts have been spent to solve these problems.

Politicians, historians and civic leaders are at odds over how the money can best be spent to solve 20th century problems.

Look at Harrison and his clock:  the £20,000 he won was enormous for him, but it was a tiny sum compared to what the British government might have spent to solve the longitude problem by giving grants to various astronomers or cartographers.

The report says that while federal agencies are investing some $50 billion a year on information technology partly to prevent terrorism, "almost none of this money is being spent to solve the problem of how to share this information and intelligence among those agencies".

While most people believe climate change is a serious problem, and climate change has once again become a hot topic after Sandy, many people in the U.S. don't think it is a problem, and no one is sure just how much money should be spent to solve it.

To measure the time spent to solve each questionnaire item we let the subjects inform an approximate value, instead of recording the actual time between assignments.

In "Vouchers That Win" (Op-Ed, Oct. 11), Felicia Wong correctly observes that it is unfair to make disadvantaged children attend failing public schools, and she correctly recommends spending to solve the problem.

"The big question companies ask is: How much can we afford to spend to solve this problem [of certain customers not buying from us]?

The grace period for hand-wringing and time-wasting is long over, and the last thing we need is more time spent trying to solve problems for which there are already solutions.

This is the best class I have ever attended and the hours spent trying to solve the homework problems had that combination of pure frustration and intense hapiness (when I could find the solution).

The bulk of the time is spent trying to solve particular problems such as design of a robust screening assay or finding the best way of testing the effectiveness of a compound in vivo.