Sentence examples for we spent this from inspiring English sources

"In the first years, we spent this money on hardware and students," Minsky told me.

He said last week: "Britain would be a far safer and stronger country if we spent this money fighting gang warfare and illiteracy.

We spent this last week in a rental house near the beach, a multigenerational getaway that included four kids ages 13 to 15.

Its study, What Makes For A Happy Christmas, found that it did not depend on how much we spent (this tended to make people less happy) or on how much was spent on us (also a downer, maybe because of guilt); rather, it depended on how much time we spent with our families, how religious we were and how well we controlled spending.

While we spent this week having a right old knees up in honour of Charles Dicken's 200th birthday (he may be cracking on a bit, but boy can he put away the Jägerbombs), we have managed to save some energy for this weekend.

Cisco's VP of supply chain, John Kern, told us, "We always manage costs so closely, but we weren't really measuring energy we didn't know how much we spent!" This is a common gap among manufacturers, but it's a troubling one, because, as Kern noted, energy is typically a factory's largest variable cost.

But we can reduce the adverse consequences by how we spend this borrowed money.

Understanding the value we and others place on it, how we spend this currency, what we are being sold, and at what cost.

Can't we spend this money on developing technology at home?" Senator Corker was fairly sure that the foreigners would find things to sell America.

But for now, let's use that $1 trillion figure to ask a broader question: Are we spending this money in truly the best way to help the poor?

No, we cannot always control what we need to spend time on, but we can control how smart we spend this time.