The time that we spend in congested conditions significantly adds to the amount of fuel cars and trucks are burning.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

On a recent visit to China, the students had to spend several days in hotel rooms in the city of Kaili.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

They found that people who spend months in space lose bone strength at a faster rate than experts had thought.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

He promised to spend his remaining years in search of designs that could make human existence on Earth easier.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

She said: "My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

You can spend a great deal of time making an object only for it to break in the kiln.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

You may win a lot of money in a lottery, then spend it all in a few days.

VOA: special.2009.06.07

But,in his words, "A smart entrepreneur should spend his time developing the business rather than the business plan."

VOA: special.2009.06.26

But users are charged if they try to spend more than the amount available in their account.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Paul liked to spend as much time as he could at the theater where Charley Edwards and his group acted in their plays.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

He says he is going spend the next few months playing in European poker events but also having fun with his friends and family.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

He chose to spend a good deal of that money building his home in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

It found many ways to spend it. For example, Congress raised payments to soldiers who had fought in the Civil War during the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

"I don't want to spend more than twenty dollars for a backpack." Consumer spending is seventy percent of the economic activity in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.21