In running for office, politicians routinely spend thousands of dollars on campaign mailings, yard signs and phone banks.

At present, European governments routinely spend 5 to 15 times more per head on culture than the United States.

But classical singers routinely spend much of their careers performing in languages foreign to them.

Record companies routinely spend $300,000 to $400,000 to get a song played on the radio.

Appropriations committees routinely spend nearly all the money they control: more than 98 percent in the last two fiscal years.

Presidential campaigns now routinely spend two-thirds or more of their money on paid ads.

But many team members say they routinely spend an extra 10 hours a week at school and sometimes much more.

Several coaches, who routinely spend hours in the practice field sun, are wearing wide-brimmed hats this summer.

They routinely spent $1 to buy a single 37-cent stamp at their corner bodega when posting bills rather than going to the post office.

Customers routinely spend $500 or more on a whim, and industry experts say the stores are turning nice profits.