Sentence examples for used to devote to from inspiring English sources

Mr Brown hopes that departments with a fixed three-year budget will devote the energy to spending it well that they used to devote to increasing it.

Marc Camoletti's French farce, which ran in London for much of the 60s, has not merely been revived - it has been buffed up, re-polished and given the kind of dream cast which the National Theatre used to devote to Feydeau.

Without Isabel, Teri and I were left with oceans of love we could no longer dispense; we found ourselves with an excess of time that we used to devote to her; we had to live in a void that could be filled only by Isabel.

Beecroft: I used to devote part of the day to massage or yoga, but now there's just so much to do.

MORE as a sort of public service than anything else, The Economist used to devote space every now and then to writing about the Democratic Party of Japan.

By the end, he's a very different lad from the one who used to devote his professional energies to writing about who's doing what to Lindsay Lohan.

The most delicious legacy of the man was his gaffes, to which the satirical magazine Private Eye used to devote a regular column.

People who had the means used to devote entire rooms to housing their books.

The EDM fan base is also less splintered than it once was; listeners used to devote themselves to specific genres - such as trance or drum 'n' bass.

The people in charge are themselves often young and inexperienced in the art of management, they say, and are so used to devoting all their energies to relieving the stresses and strains of fast growth that they do not know how to cope with decline gracefully.

But alongside are usually some hard facts: which textbooks to use and how many hours to devote to each topic, for example.