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Example sentences for: spent

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Most Puerto Ricans were tied to the large agricultural companies — they lived in company houses and were paid in tokens that could only be spent at company stores.
Probably at least $1 billion has been spent on research to evaluate these programs, trying to measure their benefits and costs.
A Vietnam rifleman turned Methodist minister, Grey has spent the last eight years evangelizing against gambling.
Since 2000, Matteo Garbelotto, Adjunct Professor of Mycology and Forest Pathology at the University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, California, United States), has spent a significant part of his working life tracking the spread of
Sparta attempted to govern the city through a council of 30 men, known as the “Thirty Tyrants,” who spent most of their time persecuting opponents and confiscating property.