41.   Educators from kindergarten through college spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on computers to enhance learning.

42.   Energy Group has said it intends to spend hundreds of millions on U.S. acquisitions, such as power plants and related businesses.

43.   ETrade and Ameritrade, two of the best-known online brokers, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to promote themselves, sacrificing earnings today for rapid growth tomorrow.

44.   European winemakers have spent hundreds of years refining their skills and, consequently, their wines.

45.   FBI officials have long complained that Congress has refused to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars that a meaningful upgrade would require.

46.   Fidelity, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on technology projects, had not scrapped any programs, Crowley said.

47.   Fleet and BankBoston together have spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to comply with the CRA to gain community support.

48.   For decades, U.S. taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help other countries prepare and hold elections.

49.   For each competition, he swam thousands of laps and spent hundreds of hours refining his stroke, honing his breathing.

50.   For decades, U.S. taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to help other countries hold elections.