They devoted the better part of a year to their entries and spent $10,000 to $3.5 million.

He devoted a large part of his speech on Monday to the subject.

"I've never had a problem in asking people to devote part of their time to helping others."

He devoted the greater part of his speech to the case against foreign investment in the domestic economy.

In fact, I devote part of two early chapters to his marriage and family life.

For more than a year he wrote little at all, devoting the greater part of his time to the farm.

A monk is a man who devoted part or all of his life to a religion.

He has since devoted a substantial part of his career to mathematical education.

But he could devote part of his second term to making amends.

I, as do most primary care physicians, devote part of each day to paperwork.