1 Frugality when all is spent comes too late. 

2 Better spared than ill spent.

3 Ill (or Evil) gotten, ill (or evil) spent. 

4 Ill gotten money is soon spent. 

5 Ill gotten [got] ill spent.

6 Soon gotten, soon spent.

7 Ill-gotten, ill spent.

8 Evil gotten, evil spent.

9 Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain. 

10 Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert 

11 She spent the afternoon pruning roses.

12 He spent 5 years in prison for forgery.

13 I spent the whole day cleaning.

14 Lily spent years caring for her sick uncle.

15 We spent a week walking in the mountains.

16 I spent the night throwing up.

17 We spent part of the time in the museum.

18 She spent the morning chattering away to her friends.

19 He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.

20 He spent seventeen years as an airline pilot.

21 Too much time is spent on administration.

22 We've spent a lot on the children's education.

23 I spent my youth in the country.

24 He spent the evening wrapping up the Christmas presents.

25 I spent the day taking photographs of the city.

26 We spent a cozy evening chatting by the fire.

27 He spent most of his life working in obscurity.

28 He spent most of his life without aim.

29 We spent a sedate evening at home.

30 It is too late to husband [spare] when all is spent. 

1 I spent the whole day cleaning.

2 We spent a week walking in the mountains.

3 We spent part of the time in the museum.

4 She spent the morning chattering away to her friends.

5 He spent the whole month canvassing for votes.

6 He spent seventeen years as an airline pilot.

7 Too much time is spent on administration.

8 I spent my youth in the country.

9 We spent a cozy evening chatting by the fire.

10 We spent a sedate evening at home.

11 We spent a good part of the day rehearsing.

12 He spent three days adrift on his yacht.

13 She spent all her inheritance in a year.

14 We spent three blissful weeks away from work.

15 He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops.

16 We spent the night at the village inn.

17 I spent the afternoon snug and warm in bed.

18 Huge sums of money are spent on national defence.

19 We spent every possible moment on the beach.

20 Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.

21 He spent the whole day writing.

22 He spent weeks panning for gold in the river.

23 Most of his time is spent travelling.

24 He spent hours bargaining for the valuable watch.

25 Banks spent his national service in the Royal Navy.

26 I spent the evening with an old school friend.

27 I've spent all my money already.

28 We've spent the last fortnight in Spain.

29 She spent her gap year hitchhiking around the world.

30 They spent the day swimming and sunbathing.

31 We spent a good part of the day rehearsing.

32 He spent his time in prison praying and studying.

33 He spent three days adrift on his yacht.

34 She spent all her inheritance in a year.

35 We spent three blissful weeks away from work.

36 He spent his weekends poking around dusty old bookshops.

37 She spent ￡100 on a new dress.

38 He spent too much money on horse racing.

39 We spent the night at the village inn.

40 I spent the afternoon snug and warm in bed.

41 Huge sums of money are spent on national defence.

42 We spent part of our holiday in France.

43 We spent every possible moment on the beach.

44 The ship spent four days in port.

45 Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.

46 He spent the whole day writing.

47 He spent weeks panning for gold in the river.

48 Most of his time is spent travelling.

49 He spent hours bargaining for the valuable watch.

50 He tried to eject the spent cartridge and reload.

51 The children spent the afternoon playing in the garden.

52 We spent a most agreeable couple of hours.

53 Banks spent his national service in the Royal Navy.

54 I spent the evening with an old school friend.

55 I've spent all my money already.

56 We've spent the last fortnight in Spain.

57 He spent hours in the saddle.

58 We spent a blissful week together.

59 We spent the summer hitching around Europe.

60 She spent her gap year hitchhiking around the world.

31 We spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.

32 We spent a cosy evening chatting by the fire.

33 You are not obliged to acknowledge spent convictions.

34 She had spent 29 years as a nurse.

35 They often spent Christmas at Prescott Hill.

36 I spent most time on the first question.

37 Her whole morning was spent in fetching and carrying.

38 They spent the night in Bristol.

39 He spent five years in prison for his opposition to the regime.

40 They spent a lot of money equipping the school with new computers.

41 After a lifetime of poverty, his last few years were spent in comparable comfort.

42 Councillors were presented with a petition calling for more money to be spent on policing the area.

43 Afterwards he spent five minutes with the President of whom he is an unashamed admirer.

44 My dad spent $500 on a new coat and my mom had a cow.

45 I spent most of my youth hanging around the bars of Dublin.

46 She regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying.

47 He joined the air force in 1964 and spent ten years in the service.

48 We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.

49 Many spent decades in labour camps or in internal exile.

50 Tell me what you have spent and I will reimburse you.

51 I spent six months as a visiting professor at Brown University.

52 He went mad and spent the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.

53 Only a small portion of the budget is spent on books.

54 She had spent years trying to track down her parents.

55 The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems.

56 She's a botanist and spent several years researching in the tropics.

57 He was shot down over Denmark and spent three years in a prison camp.

58 I spent the day traipsing round the shops, but found nothing suitable for her.

59 I was sent to boarding school, where I spent six years of unremitting misery.

60 He had spent several uproarious evenings at the Embassy Club.

61 They spent the day swimming and sunbathing.

62 I spent the evening on my tod again.

63 We spent the afternoon lazing in the sun.

64 My goodness, you have spent a lot!

65 We spent a cosy evening chatting by the fire.

66 You are not obliged to acknowledge spent convictions.

67 The plant reprocesses spent fuel from nuclear power stations.

68 We spent the afternoon fooling around on the beach.

69 We spent three days in Paris.

70 He spent many years caring for his senile mother.

71 She spent seven days afloat on a raft.

72 She had spent 29 years as a nurse.

73 I spent all morning doing housework.

74 We spent all evening doing a 1000-piece jigsaw.

75 They spent hours haggling over the price.

76 I spent a week in Spain this summer.

77 They often spent Christmas at Prescott Hill.

78 She spent the afternoon looking round the shops.

79 Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost.

80 I spent the weekend just knocking about the house.

81 They spent a pleasant afternoon motoring through the countryside.

82 Her childhood was spent travelling from place to place.

83 I spent most time on the first question.

84 He spent all morning editing the book.

85 He spent the major part of a year abroad.

86 He spent a pleasant afternoon reading .

87 We spent the afternoon sitting by the pool.

88 I spent the afternoon doing routine paperwork.

89 Her whole morning was spent in fetching and carrying.

90 I spent Sunday reclining in a deck chair.

61 She spent a month in the country recuperating from/after the operation.

62 By next year all the money will have been spent.

63 The money will be spent on acquisitions for the university library.

64 They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.

65 He spent the 1980s on the margins of British politics.

66 We spent the day on the beach but it was too cold to go swimming.

67 He spent important money on a small jewel for his wife.

68 She spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

69 The crew spent two days and nights in their raft.

70 The accounts show that the company has spent more than it received.

71 She spent the night in intensive care after the operation.

72 Except for what he spent on haircuts,books and daily necessities he never wasted a penny.

73 He spent all his money, he is such a fool.

74 Millions of dollars are spent each year on beauty products .

75 He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.

76 His entire working life was spent with the same firm.

77 This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working, and I'm a bit fed up with it.

78 She spent an unorthodox girlhood travelling with her father throughout Europe.

79 The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them.

80 I spent 2 hours hammering up the announcement on the wall.

91 Any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

92 The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.

93 I spent all morning doing the housework.

94 I spent all afternoon polishing the silver.

95 They spent the night in Bristol.

96 He'd already spent all his money by the second day of the trip.

97 He'd spent most of that evening chatting up one of my friends.

98 He spent that year commuting between New York and Chicago.

99 We spent a month in the French town of Le Puy.

100 He spent five years in prison for his opposition to the regime.

101 The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems.

102 Jackson spent the day meeting with local religious and civic leaders.

103 They spent a lot of money equipping the school with new computers.

104 I took Friday off, and spent a long weekend visiting friends.

105 After a lifetime of poverty, his last few years were spent in comparable comfort.

106 We spent the weekend gadding about London and generally enjoying ourselves.

107 Thought always spent in cigarettes, total love in alcohol broken.

108 Councillors were presented with a petition calling for more money to be spent on policing the area.

109 Afterwards he spent five minutes with the President of whom he is an unashamed admirer.

110 My dad spent $500 on a new coat and my mom had a cow.

111 She has spent her life trying to help gypsies, beggars and other social outcasts.

112 I spent most of my youth hanging around the bars of Dublin.

113 He spent most of his time in Rutherglen, where his family resided.

114 We spent a week at the aptly named Grand View Hotel.

115 Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.

115

116 She regrets that she spent her youth travelling and not studying.

117 He had spent his entire life in China as a doctor.

118 He joined the air force in 1964 and spent ten years in the service.

119 They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition.

120 A mere 2% of their budget has been spent on publicity.

121 I spent the evening sprawled on the sofa, watching TV.

122 We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.

123 We spent the afternoon meandering around the streets of the old town.

124 Roberts has spent much of his working life collating the data on which the study was based.

125 Many spent decades in labour camps or in internal exile.

126 Tell me what you have spent and I will reimburse you.

127 I spent six months as a visiting professor at Brown University.

128 The time we spent together is now a distant memory.

129 He went mad and spent the rest of his life locked up in a mental hospital.

130 Only a small portion of the budget is spent on books.

131 The son of a diplomat, he has spent much of his life globe-trotting.

132 She had spent years trying to track down her parents.

133 We spent the evening in the pub swapping stories about our travels.

134 As a woman of independent means, she spent most of her life in voluntary work.

135 The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems.

136 We spent the day trekking through forests and over mountains.

137 She's a botanist and spent several years researching in the tropics.

138 He was shot down over Denmark and spent three years in a prison camp.

139 She spent the evening grumbling to me about her job.

140 We spent a week tramping the streets of Rome, looking for movie locations.

141 I spent the day traipsing round the shops, but found nothing suitable for her.

142 Most of the money is spent on the upkeep of the building.

143 After leaving school, she spent a year travelling, mostly in Africa and Asia.

144 Powell spent the day giving pep talks to the troops.

145 We all spent a lot of time tut-tutting about Angie and her lifestyle.

146 The trial judge specifies the number of years to be spent in prison.

147 I was sent to boarding school,( ) where I spent six years of unremitting misery.

148 He had spent several uproarious evenings at the Embassy Club.

149 She spent a month in the country recuperating from/after the operation.

150 I spent hours doing that calculation and I still got the answer wrong.

151 By next year all the money will have been spent.

152 As a young girl, she spent every weekend riding her pony.

153 They spent two months in the jungle, surviving on small animals and fruit.

154 The money will be spent on acquisitions for the university library.

155 She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.

156 He spent two hours tying all the parcels with string.

157 They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.

158 He spent the 1980s on the margins of British politics.

159 We spent the day on the beach but it was too cold to go swimming.

160 He spent two and a half weeks with us in June 1986.

161 He spent important money on a small jewel for his wife.

162 They spent their free time in Glasgow busking in Argyle Street.

163 Many graduates tell of months spent in search of gainful employment.

164 As a political leader he was something of a spent force.

165 He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.

166 She spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

167 The crew spent two days and nights in their raft.

168 Joanna, 30, spent most of her twenties virtually estranged from her father.

169 The accounts show that the company has spent more than it received.

170 He has spent most of his life being shunted between his mother, father and various foster families.

171 The Town Council spent a lot of money to preserve the old castle and other places of historic interest.

172 He studied metallurgy as a mature student, having spent ten years working in a foundry.

173 You just take me as a ferry, by the time I spent lonely desolate.

174 She spent the night in intensive care after the operation.

175 Except for what he spent on haircuts,books and daily necessities he never wasted a penny.

175

176 The new couple spent some money for the purchase of the furnature necessary for their new house.

177 He spent all his money, he is such a fool.

178 Millions of dollars are spent each year on beauty products .

179 Rev Wilson spent 20 years ministering in some of New York's poorest areas.

180 He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.

181 Council members spent the day quibbling over the final wording of the resolution.

182 I have just spent a holiday there and would recommend it to anyone.

183 Britain last year spent nearly ￡5000 million more on importing food than selling abroad.

184 The lads had spent all evening tanking up on scotch.

185 Margot has always spent an inordinate amount of time on her appearance.

186 I spent most of my childhood being shunted between my parents who had divorced when I was five.

187 My special wish may bring you health,luck and happiness each minute!Hope it really proves to be the nicest birthday you have spent.

188 We did an analysis of the way that government money has been spent in the past.

189 His entire working life was spent with the same firm.

190 He spent his time philandering with the girls in the village.

191 This is the fifth consecutive weekend that I've spent working, and I'm a bit fed up with it.

192 He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall which left him paralysed from the waist down.

193 Time spent on trying to be perfect is time wasted.

194 My special wish may bring you health, luck and happineeach minute! Hope it really proves to be the nicest birthday you have spent.

195 We spent Christmas Eve cooking and getting ready for Christmas Day.

196 Though she had spent hours fixing the computer he belittled her efforts.

197 She did not begrudge the money spent on her children's education.

198 A positive attitude may not think time and effort spent on the little things.

199 He spent the first twenty-five years of his priesthood as an academic.

200 By the end of the holiday I had spent all my money.

201 He had spent a lifetime trying to please his father.

202 In late July 1914, he and Violet spent a few days with friends near Berwick-upon-Tweed.

203 He was injured, and spent the last few weeks of the season on the bench.

204 She spent an unorthodox girlhood travelling with her father throughout Europe.

205 The women and children spent a nerve-racking day outside waiting while fighting continued around them.

206 I spent 2 hours hammering up the announcement on the wall.

207 She's spent all her recent pay rise.

208 I spent the morning doing some sightseeing.

209 We spent a day at the races.

210 I spent the afternoon schlepping around the house.

211 I've spent so many sleepless nights worrying about him.

212 He spent his holiday writing reviews for publication.

213 They spent an hour mooching around the shops.

214 They spent hours around the negotiating table.

215 We spent the day punting on the river.

216 I have figured out how much during the week I spent.

217 Police have spent the day sifting through the debris for clues.

218 Their sales rose in direct ratio to the amount they spent on advertising.

219 He spent twenty years in prison as a result of a miscarriage of justice.

220 I've spent the day dashing about from place to place.

221 They spent a great deal of effort retrieving the firm from ruin.

222 The city spent $7 million to remove snow and ice from the roads.

223 This will cost money, but if social inclusion is to succeed, it must be spent.

224 The ladies spent some time catching up on each other's health and families.

225 I had some very expensive dental treatment recently - but it was money well spent - it'll save me problems in the future.

226 Laski spent a goodly part of his lecturing life in American universities.

227 Your department spent more last year than all the other departments put together.

228 The gang spent a year planning the robbery and then bungled it.

229 There is an upper limit of ￡20 000 spent on any one project.

230 He'd spent four and a half years in windowless cells, much of the time in chains.

231 He came on board in the late Sixties and spent two decades with the agency.

232 They spent $10 million restoring the theatre to its former glory .

233 Time spent with a cat is never wasted. Colette 

234 Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. Christopher Hitchens 

235 Complainers change their complaints(http://), but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. Mason Cooley 

236 No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. Winston Churchill 

237 One day spent with someone you love can change everything. Mitch Albom 

238 Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers 

239 A moment spent in sorrow or a moment spent in pain is a waste of a great treasure that you will never get again. RVM 

240 I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. W. C. Fields 

241 If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.". Terry Pratchett