Example sentences of "[n mass] [adj] spent [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 2 | The Wolfson Foundation spends about £17 million a year on medical research ( compared with a total of about £400 million spent by the other charities ) . |
| 3 | One of the hallmarks of Conservative British governments in the 1980s was the readiness to spend large sums of money promoting the private market and a set of values which have come to be known as the ‘ enterprise culture ’ — witness the £1,200 million spent on the privatisation of Shorts and the shipyard . |
| 4 | In weighing the cost of the venture it should be remembered that 2.5 million people were employed and $25 billion spent on the project to land a man on the moon in the 1960s . |
| 5 | Thus almost £1.7 billion of the £2.8 billion spent on the Imperial takeover was recouped and yet the remaining assets yielded over half the Imperial profit ! |