101.   The governor spent about an hour toying with it, but never made any changes to his spending plan.

102.   The first speaker, another actor, Edward James Olmos, spent about a first minute of his speech talking about his hairdo and baseball cap.

103.   The overall bill passed on Thursday night spends about half the money available to Congress to finance federal agencies.

104.   The pair spent about a year fixing up the house.

105.   The president spent about an hour and a half shopping.

106.   The police spent about an hour searching all five floors of the auction house and found nothing.

107.   The Red Sox and Dodgers, for example, spent about the same.

108.   The spacecraft spent about a year in orbit around Eros, collecting data about the makeup of the asteroid from various instruments, before the final descent.

109.   The states, collectively, spent about the same amount.