He had spent his bottom dollar, his very last amount.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

He spent a considerable amount of time on the European continent with his young tutee, Mr. Cavandish.

他花了大量时间,和学生研究欧洲大陆，他的学生也就是卡文迪许。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

We've already spent a fair amount of time this semester talking about searches.

我们这个学期已经花了,很多时间来讲搜索和搜索算法了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

"There are a host of efficiencies that can be gained without increasing our personnel or our budget, but rather decreasing the amount of money that's spent on unnecessary things in order to fund some of the critical initiatives that we've all talked about,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20