21.   After he killed her, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on businesses and to buy friends cars and other gifts.

22.   After spending hundreds of dollars on patchwork hardware and untold hours on the phone to technical support, we still had not produced a single note.

23.   Burd has slashed costs, lowered prices and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on store improvements.

24.   Businesses, unions and parties have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to drill home differences between the candidates.

25.   But adding those amenities would badly detract from the authentic wilderness atmosphere the company has spent hundreds of millions to create.

26.   But it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars anyway on new high-technology centers to house and operate the Web sites of hundreds of clients.

27.   But it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars anyway on new high-tech centers to house and operate the Web sites of hundreds of clients.

28.   But Hollywood is catching up, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop in-house digital capabilities.

29.   But proponents said both provisions were needed to insure fairness to industries that they said must spend hundreds of billions of dollars each year complying with federal regulations.

30.   But the Sierra Club has hardly been timid about spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to attack its opponents.