We could spend large sums of money without any results.

The sum being spent this year represents an increase of about $6 million from 1995.

Some state governments also spend large sums of money on the press.

In recent years the museum has spent huge sums on paintings.

The report also says that the total sum spent on improvements is far less than required.

They spent large sums of money here and got no return on it whatsoever.

In the Colonial period, people were willing to spend great sums on them.

He also spent huge sums of money on food, drink, and entertainment.

"We've spent much larger sums than $13 million on virtually all of those things," he said.

They could simply take the company public, spend huge sums on advertising then wait for the customers to show up.