51.   From DaimlerChrysler and British Petroleum to Unilever, European companies have spent hundreds of billions of dollars buying American corporations in the last few years.

52.   Full-time students routinely spend hundreds of dollars on texts at the beginning of each semester, only to sell them for cents on the dollar four months later.

53.   Gone are the days when she graced the social scene, needed a gardener and could spend hundreds of hours doing volunteer work.

54.   Gov. George Pataki has proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars on biotech and biomedical research upstate.

55.   GTE also pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the latest networking equipment from Cisco Systems and other suppliers.

56.   He heads an enormous operation that will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in various African countries setting up bottling and other operations and contributing to African economies.

57.   He reports some young athletes spend hundreds of dollars on the product with minimal results.

58.   He spent hundreds of hours in a self-designed seminar, inviting experts to tutor him on urban reforms.

59.   He was taking a day off from work and spending hundreds of dollars on air fare.

60.   He spent hundreds of hours in the prison law library working on his case, promoting his innocence.