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

We've spent too much time here.

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.

That's kind of too much effort.

Try to estimate how much you spent on books.

I spent Saturday afternoon watching entirely too much TV.

Fuck this, I'm done, spent way too much money.

In fact, it doesn't matter how much money you spent.

We spent much of our time with my mother cooking.

People spent so much of their money on health issues and drinking water.

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

It also highlights the fact that much greater effort is called for.

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).

And I'm here to unveil our latest effort, and most successful effort so far, which is still very much a work in process.

That no matter how much effort we put, we get nothing after all.

So you can see two countries spent their money very differently, and actually how they spent their money matters a lot more than how much they invest in education.

You measure their happiness at the end of the day, those that have gone and spent on other people are much happier that those that spent it on themselves.

Moreover, money spent on the Iraq war does not stimulate the economy today as much as money spent at home on roads, hospitals, or schools, and it doesn t contribute as much to long term growth. Economists talk about bang for the buck how much economic stimulus is provided by each dollar of spending.

Much less effort has been concentrated on steering consumers' choice towards sustainable tourism products.

Lawmakers have feuded for months over how much money should be earmarked and how it should be spent.

No matter how much you hurry your effort is just a drop in the bucket.

But I did feel that I spent so much time learning this language, why do I only promote with it?

Mr. Gupta (McKinsey and Company) I have spent much of my life in dialogue between business, government and civil society.

SEOUL China spent much of 2014 seeking to revive a concept that Japan proclaimed seven decades ago, when it was an imperial power seeking to impose its will on the region Asia for the Asians. But that effort may not end as badly for China as it did for Japan.

He said that the researchers tried many times, but to their surprise, it didn't take much effort .

Because people in the world don't speak the same language, much effort is now devoted to translation.

A study by UNCTAD revealed that landlocked developing countries spent twice as much on transport costs as an average developing country, and three times as much as an average developed country.

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

This effort is only part of Jordan's much larger national strategy a comprehensive, inclusive approach to reform and development.

Much more effort, however, will be needed to implement the commitments made in these various declarations and to do so quickly.

When I first went to the Maldives, dead keen on diving, spent as much of my time as I could in and under the water.

Too often, the international community devoted its energies to questioning and defending agreed international norms and the Committee spent too much time on unproductive deliberations.

So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global supply chain.

So the first week was pretty much spent just getting as close as we could, every day a little closer, a little closer, a little closer.

We feel it is time to start negotiations without preconditions, as we have already spent far too much time negotiating on the way we should negotiate.

I actually ran out, I spent too much money on my road trip for the savings that I had to take my year off, so I had to, I went to Seattle and I spent some time with friends working on a really neat project.

I noticed how we spent so much time on making it interactive this is, like, a touch screen and I noticed how you can only touch five places, and so, why are we wasting so much interactivity everywhere?

It was also important to pay closer attention to how resources were spent, to how much was actually reaching the recipients, and to the effectiveness of delivery.

And I remember, Natasha didn't want us opening the door sorry, I was trying not to open the door, because we'd spent so much time barricading the room.

Now I spent a lot of time in my garage, over the next weeks and months, and also in my kitchen much to the dismay of my wife.

The consultation processes on rules and regulations were highly structured, and much effort was devoted to ensuring balanced representations from providers and users of financial services. We funded research for a Consumer Panel in an effort to ensure equality of arms.

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.

His Government had put much effort and sacrifice into achieving peace in the south of the country, which had been in conflict for many years.

Secretariat members always try to gain as much benefit from those missions as possible, for example, by making a special effort to reach out to Parties that are having problems with compliance, in an effort to assist them directly in any way that it can.