At the same time, money spent on the war could have been spent elsewhere.

Some of the happiest days of my life have been spent ...

Hundreds of billions have been spent to preserve these dysfunctional institutions.

Money that could have been used to save thousands of lives was spent to win votes.

Reserves are costly, for the money could have been spent on development projects that would enhance growth.

The hazards of pools for spent nuclear fuel have been known for many years, but little action has been taken to alleviate the risks.

For instance, the time spent on the journey to work may have been stable for centuries (the travel budget hypothesis).

The dry storage casks for spent fuel outside Ignalina NPP were commissioned in 1999, but have been almost filled in.

The tax cut has probably been saved rather than spent.

He says , I have spent enormous wealth .

He says , I have spent enormous wealth .

The meter on the Bribr website currently shows that 1,795,295 rubles ( 58,000) have been spent on bribes since September 24, 2012.

He says , I have spent wealth in abundance .

He says , I have spent wealth in abundance .

But the magical thing here is that they're paying with their time, but that is time that would have had to have been spent anyways learning the language.

Africa and the international community have been patient with Côte d Ivoire, with thousands of hours spent by many people of goodwill on diplomacy and mediation.

The threat of nuclear Armageddon was real, with three trillion dollars spent on the arms race that could have been used to help the world's poor.

That is ten times more than is spent by governments now, but remains a fraction of the cost of the ineffective carbon cuts that have been proposed.

Many Lebanese have spent the last few days celebrating their Armenian heritage.

I am not against the World Cup, sir, but I am against the money that has been used for the World Cup, which could have been spent on other things, like health, education, and transportation.

The traditional male role as provider has often led work to take precedence over time spent with family. Indeed, in reflecting on their childhoods, many graduates may lament that their fathers spent too little time at home, or were less nurturing than they could have been.

And therefore, the standard process, where you develop a molecule, put it into mice, into men, are not yielding those results the billions of dollars that have been spent.

In our life time, we would have spent 3 years in the toilet.

Controlling the location of impact for spent lunar orbiters can have scientific value.

I spent a night in a sports complex that had been turned into a place for refugees.

Six months that could have been spent boosting the long run growth potential of the American economy through infrastructure investment, educational reform, or an overhaul of health care financing greatly easing America's long run deficit and debt dilemmas in the process have been lost.

With better directed incentives (more research dollars spent on more important diseases, less money spent on wasteful and distorted marketing), we could have better health at lower cost.

Industry has also been concerned about minimizing workers exposure to radiation when they transfer spent fuel to casks.

CA There are a lot of causes out there in the world that have been talked about, you know, poverty, sickness and so on. You spent eight years on this one.

In fact, few Chinese, Japanese, Malaysians, or Filipinos have ever seen a Jew, unless they have spent time abroad.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.

The Iraqi government is said to have spent 52 million ( 85 million) on the devices.

For starters, the European Central Bank s outright monetary transactions program has been incredibly effective interest rate spreads for Spain and Italy have fallen by about 250 basis points, even before a single euro has been spent to purchase government bonds.

Over the last two years more than 850 million roubles from the federal budget have been spent in implementing the measures provided under this programme and its subprogrammes in the Russian Federation.

Money not spent on tobacco would be spent on other goods and services.

Because of higher oil prices, for example, America s spending on oil imports has increased by roughly 50 billion a year money that otherwise would have been spent mostly on goods made in America.

Would something have befallen them if they had believed in God and the Last Day , and spent of what has been given them by God ? God is fully aware of all they do .

Would something have befallen them if they had believed in God and the Last Day , and spent of what has been given them by God ? God is fully aware of all they do .

Unfortunately, spent fuel storage has been an afterthought, as Ernest Moniz, Director of the Energy Initiative at MIT, puts it.

During the Green Revolution of the 1940s to 1970s, billions of dollars had been spent building large scale irrigation systems.

In total, 100 million to 150 million has been spent across the World Bank's youth portfolio on sports development programmes.

In fact, Chinese leaders have spent remarkably little, relative to China s growing GDP, on the military.

Have you forgotten all this just because he said, I have spent my entire life in the service of my country ?

Even if Americans have not been cheated by Defense Department suppliers like Halliburton, it is clear that the money spent in Iraq has not bought the promised peace and security in the Middle East.

I like dark spent grain. Today we're using a light spent grain that's actually from, like, some kind of a lager of some sort a light lager or an ale that is wheat and barley that's been toasted.