8 sentences with 'spending'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spending and other words derived from it.
• « On the one hand, both my wife and I have a nagging conscience that we're spending too much time at work; on the other hand, we're afraid the girls will get lost and disappear if we're not always looking out for them. »
• « Recently, after spending a day running from dance class to swimming class to the store, without so much as a brief snack break, I ran out of patience. »
• « The welfare state was paid for by progressive taxation schemes and a very large reduction in military spending; one of the benefits of Western Europe's alliance with the United States, and Europe's commitment to the United Nations, was that it was politically feasible to greatly reduce the size of each country's military, on the understanding that it was the United States that would lead the way in keeping the threat of Soviet invasion in check. »
• « For example, even as military spending soared for the US and the Soviet Union, it fell to less than 10% of UK GDP in the early 1960s and declined steadily from there in the years that followed. Also, with the long-term trend of decolonisation, there was no longer a need for large imperial armies to control the colonies. »
• « Concerned that the boy was spending too much time fixing the car, his father told him that if he didn't maintain a good average in school, he would take away his keys. »
• « "He goes to the shop; she gets the car washed. They do a lot of things, but they waste time they could be spending together." »