I spent three years looking for a good director, but couldn't find one.

I want to spend rest of the life pursuing my ideals.

Medicaid, a program originally created to provide medical care for poverty-level women and children, today spends almost a third of its budget on elderly people.

She spends most of her income on books.

She spent most of her life taking care of poor people.

She spent a good deal of money on her vacation.

They spent hours in argument about the future of Japan.

They studied it a little bit, but they couldn't spend all day finding out what to do, so they finally picked up the other one, and the water went out again, all over the floor.

They spent four hours discussing their plan.

They worked out the system with much thought and labor.

He consumed much of each day in idle speculation.

He devoted much time to study.

He devoted his whole life to compilation of the dictionary.

He put a lot of time and effort into preparing for the exam.

He has spent three years writing this novel.

Sailing a boat, his chief hobby, costs him most of his salary.

A large amount of money was spent on the bridge.

Five years have been spent building the new building.

Senior executives spend a lot of time training their subordinates.

We spent a lot of time looking for a parking lot.