11.   Student achievement has not improved substantially despite the large expenditures.

12.   That results in large expenditures on overlapping systems, like three separate new tactical fighter programs.

13.   The committee will not have the veto power over large expenditures that the dissident group had sought.

14.   The problem is that by far the biggest market for conventional weapons is in developing countries that can scarcely afford large expenditures on arms.

15.   There have also been large expenditures.

16.   This sum, a drop in the bucket to giant commercial advertisers, represents a large expenditure and a bit of a gamble for the nonprofit institutions.

17.   Today, with the Cold War long over, the competition that once justified large federal expenditures on space is absent.

18.   Unions for state workers and teachers, which feared layoffs and cuts in money for education, also made large expenditures.

19.   The other substantially large routine expenditures are fuel-oils subsidies.

20.   The telephone industry was once ripe for monopolies since it required expenditures too large to be duplicated.