Thousands of companies spend millions of dollars trying to get kids to buy their products.

But, he asked, "does it make sense for the state to spend thousands of dollars trying to collect 37 cents or even $100?"

"The problem is just not there in a significant way, so why spend millions of dollars trying to study it?"

He spent in excess of a million dollars trying to recreate an Italian garden.

Spend two dollars trying to win a prize worth half that.

Your father's spent twenty thousand dollars trying to find you.

I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars trying to help some people.

In 1991, I lost several thousand dollars trying to hang onto my practice.

The Earl was said to have spent thousands of dollars trying to establish his whereabouts.

Over the past few decades federal and state governments have spent billions of dollars trying to improve high schools.