Sentence examples for was actually spending from inspiring English sources

Juan was earning so little that he was actually spending money to work (buying stationery, taxi fare).

"I believe in many areas the state was actually spending more money than it needed to be spending," Mr. Cuomo said.

The average household in 1950 was actually spending a higher percentage of its income on food than on housing — and not because housing was extra-cheap.

Between June 2007 and March 2009 Smith was actually spending more nights at her constituency home than in London, the committee said.

While Mr. Reid was inviting the right-wing politics of the Tea Party-dominated house to drive the gun control agenda, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York was actually spending political capital on guns.

"Several times, while planning a trip, I was actually spending the night comparing airline Web sites, comparators, Wikipedia, weather information and other media to find out where I could fly to from where I was, how much it was, and if it was a good place for me to go," he says.

There is no way, however, that states can confirm whether the time was actually spent driving.

On paper, at least, that is a big increase from the $160m that the UN Development Programme UNDPP) reckons was actually spent last year.

But it emerged after a number of months that only a fraction of this was actually spent, leading to accusations that the problems were not being taken seriously.

More than $1 billion in American aid was actually spent by U.S.A.I.D. in Pakistan last year from previously unused funds, Mr. Sisson said, including $500 million for flood victims.

Astonishingly, this is said to equal total FDI pledged in the previous 20 years, though only a small amount was actually spent.