Spent in sentence

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So, Solomon Golomb spent the summer thinking about the problem.

How had I spent my valuable time?

That's why we've spent a lot of time thinking about how to make this data meaningful to the people who use it.

And I spent nine months wrestling with the reality that being called "mama" or something like it didn't feel like me at all.

Now I was a little annoyed to be confronted with a lot of pink things, and having studied gender and spent countless hours teaching about it in workshops and classrooms, I thought I was pretty well versed on the social construction of gender and how sexism is a devaluing of the feminine and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly.

He was an amazing visionary, a clergyman who spent his life working hard for equality.

And I’d like to say that, even though I have Progeria, most of my time is spent thinking about things that have nothing to do with Progeria at all.

Basically, it spent all its time, the last eight months, in Irish waters.

Here's one we haven't ground-truthed yet with sea-surface temperature and water depth, but again, the second shark spent most of its time in and around the Irish Sea.

As a result, most of my colleagues who are astronomers spent at least part of their youth looking up at the sky in their backyard.

This is the decree, this object is the evidence for the fact that the Jews, after the exile in Babylon, the years they'd spent sitting by the waters of Babylon, weeping when they remembered Jerusalem, those Jews were allowed to go home.

But back in 2009, the question Joel and I kept turning over and over was why this late in the game so much energy was being spent talking about the science when the policies necessary to address climate change were unequivocally beneficial for humanity in the long run regardless of the science.

He spent most of his life battling alcoholism, depression, morphine addiction, and that life ended when he was just 34 years old.

I spent the last year practicing public speaking every chance I could get.

But after the show, as I spent time with my mom and dad and my little sister and my two new siblings that I never met, I felt anger.

On a typical day at school, endless hours are spent learning the answers to questions, but right now, we'll do the opposite.

I've spent my career reaching into people's minds and creating worlds out here that we can all interact with.

Is it because women don't look like men, they don't look like that male-pattern heart disease that we've spent the last 50 years understanding and getting really good diagnostics and really good therapeutics, and therefore, they're not recognized for their heart disease.

And this one's the biggest growth industry of all, and at least six out of 10 of the people in this room will die in this form, which is the dwindling of capacity with increasing frailty, and frailty's an inevitable part of aging, and increasing frailty is in fact the main thing that people die of now, and the last few years, or the last year of your life is spent with a great deal of disability, unfortunately.

I spent 20 years in interviews with African farmers who were on the verge of famine.

And my own story with September 11 has really become a more intricate one, because I spent a great deal of time working on a piece of the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan.

So instead of spending it the way you usually spend it, maybe if you spent it differently, that might work a little bit better.

These are college undergrads; a lot of what they spent it on for themselves were things like earrings and makeup.

People who spent money on others got happier; people who spent it on themselves, nothing happened.

What really matters is that you spent it on somebody else rather than on yourself.

Imagine, instead of just people in Canada, we say, "Name the last time you spent money on yourself or others.

Or in Uganda, "Name the last time you spent money on yourself or others and describe that."

We say, "Name a time you spent money on somebody else."

She got it because she spent time with these people.

You know my example of the Eurostar: six million pounds spent to reduce the journey time between Paris and London by about 40 minutes.

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