A considerable amount of time and effort have been spent already.

The rule of law is absent, and much more effort is spent on extortion and rent collection than production. Consequently, economic progress has not kept pace with the accumulation of oil revenues.

And the world has spent a lot of money on it The GAVI and the Gates Foundations are each pledging a lot of money towards it, and developing countries themselves have been doing a lot of effort.

Time spent with children

A heroic effort is a collective effort, number one.

He spent the evening reading.

She spent all afternoon cooking.

I only spent three dollars.

Other counties spent even more.

We spent two and a half years conducting research we spent another year and a half in advance development.

Yet we have spent only a tiny fraction of the money on ocean exploration that we've spent on space exploration.

So I spent a long time.

I spent my vacation in Hakone.

She spent the weekend by herself.

We spent the weekend with friends.

I spent 10 dollars on it.

We've spent too much time here.

It was regrettable that, after so much time and energy had been spent in the effort to reach consensus, the Group of 77 and China had decided not to submit the text on which delegations had worked so hard (A C.2 59 L.25).

It takes a human effort, a team effort, to bring the fish in.

That's what Wired magazine spent on this.

And I spent about three years researching.

I spent idle days during the vacation.

I spent twelve hours on the train.

He spent the evening reading a book.

And he spent 33 years in prison.

How had I spent my valuable time?

I've spent my career fighting these problems.

I spent no more than three dollars.

I spent my vacation at the beach.

I spent last Sunday reading a novel.

I've spent 500 dollars in one day.

He spent the morning reading a book.

He spent the morning reading a book.

Yesterday I spent the whole day working.

I spent all day in the library.

He says, I have spent enormous wealth.

He says, I have spent enormous wealth.

The available funds must be spent appropriately.

Some generate amazing economic, social, and environmental benefits per dollar spent. Many others generate only slightly more than a dollar per dollar spent.

UNHCR spent 0.3 million directly the remainder was spent by 11 implementing partners, through subagreements that were not limited to Iraq Trust Fund funds.

Half as much money was spent on this Norden bombsight as was spent on the most famous military industrial project of the modern era.

Well I think back to my childhood, a good part of which I spent, after being born here in Chicago, I spent in Europe.

Months were spent in this tiny, cold warehouse.

People who spent money on themselves, nothing happened.

And we have spent a lot of money.