1.   All you read about Washington is how they are going to spend those billions of dollars.

2.   The big cigarette manufacturers spend billions of dollars a year on advertising.

3.   The US spends billions of dollars on aid to developing countries.

4.   The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.

5.   Yet someone is obviously trying to buy this dream and spending billions every year in the attempt.

6.   This in turn suggests that HDTV has to offer something radically new, a benefit so persuasive that consumers will be prepared to spend billions on new equipment.

7.   Compared with the billions being spent out of the road fund in England to make the motorways even wider, the cost would be chicken-feed.

8.   Alphatec Electronics Pcl and Somprasong Land Pcl became the first two Thai companies to default on international debt, while the government spent billions to prop up the baht.

9.   Altogether, he said, American industries will have to spend billions of dollars to comply with this rule.

10.   America has spent billions on educating people about the dangers of high cholesterol.