1.   Rearing a child to maturity requires large expenditures on the basic necessities of life.

2.   A country desperately short of dollars and in need of total reconstruction could scarcely afford large military expenditures.

3.   Her last large expenditure had been on a Royal Doulton tea-service.

4.   Not all environmental improvement, however, requires large expenditure and much can be done by careful design and painstaking attention to the detail of operations.

5.   Cox blamed large expenditures on marketing in Phoenix for its falling short of second-quarter earnings projections.

6.   For another, the large military expenditures of the Cold War have diminished sharply.

7.   Gonzalez would not have approved such a large expenditure were the company headed inexorably toward liquidation.

8.   He said canon law required the Finance Council to approve such a large expenditure.

9.   One of our employees, who is otherwise competent and popular, has twice committed to large expenditures to help our organization but without proper authorization.

10.   Pat Gillick ran their baseball operation without owner input, except, as in most cases, for approval to spend money when large expenditures were anticipated.