Sentence examples for was ever spent from inspiring English sources

The Attlee administration used the 1944 Butler Act to cement a tripartite system of grammar, secondary modern and technical schools – but precious little money or attention was ever spent on the third leg.

It's the most she's ever spent on anything, clotheswise.

Whatever happens next, Price is sure of one thing – the millions he's spending on his pay project is the best money he's ever spent.

Following the money remains difficult and it's almost impossible to say exactly how much aid is ever spent in the developing countries for which it was budgeted.

Anyone who's ever spent any time around leftist revolutionaries, or just members of a fractious community garden, will recognize how valuable such skills might be.

Anyone who's ever spent much time in the Quarter will sympathise with Dave's white-knuckled struggle for sobriety and his cynical view of the city.

Anyone who's ever spent hours trying to work out whether a screaming baby is hungry, tired, soiled or just whingeing for the TV to be switched on to an episode of In The Night Garden will agree that little 'uns aren't the easiest people to communicate with.

Best $10 he's ever spent?

Even so, he's looking to clean smarter, not harder, and finds that the $16 Black & Decker Power Scrubber might just be the best $16 he's ever spent.

I've noticed it go down and down and down and down, because nothing is ever spent on Jaywick.

To wit: The Chamber of Commerce, lobbying muscle for all manner of businesses on all manner of issues, spent an eye-popping $71 million on lobbying in the fourth quarter of 2009 alone, bringing its yearly total to $123 million, almost double the $62 million it spent in 2008 -- and more than it's ever spent.