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These revellers spend up to a year before the parade 'pasting' their costumes in Junkanoo 'shacks' and practising their theme songs.

NIH alone could spend up to $5bn immediately on grants for highly rated projects and a similar amount over the next year.

He has said he is willing to spend up to $500 million of his own money to make his space stations a reality.

Harvard says it expects to spend up to twenty-two million dollars more a year in financial aid.

The Congressional Budget Office says it could spend up to $80 billion a year more on projects that would give an economic return.

Americans spend up five years of their lives in that tedious, stressful but unavoidable process known as waiting.

But the new tightening indicates the sensitivity of inflation in a society in which poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.

Uncertainty in global markets and a promise to spend up to $30bn on a buy-back after a deal is consummated may play into BHP's hands.

The administration also has said it plans to spend up to $100 billion of the remaining money to help homeowners facing foreclosure.

Spend up to half the time on a review that you did writing the code or planning the design originally .

Advertisers in some of these categories spend up to 25% of their overall marketing budgets online.

The United Nations says the region's poor spend up to 70 percent of their income on food and that inflation affects them the most.

Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan has announced it will spend up to Y1, 000bn buying shares from banks.

Food prices are particularly sensitive in a country where poor people spend up to half their incomes on food.

They will spend up to two hours of their day " garden farming " which is quite a labor intensive process .

China needs to spend up to $20 billion a year to bring its urban water supplies up to standard, according to the World Bank.

Mr Wade can spend up to four hours perfecting his dirt drawings but admitted one heavy downpour could destroy his hard work.

Each day the swimmer would spend up to 8 hours in the water before returning to her support boat.

14Gabra women in northern Kenya spend up to five hours a day carrying heavy jerry cans filled with murky water.

Ward lay-out is key: eliminating long corridors because nurses can spend up to 40% of their time walking instead of caring for patients.

Inspectors say they may spend up to 18 days examining certain cuts about which consumers have expressed the most concern.

The government proposes to spend up to sixteen billion dollars on a wireless network for public safety agencies.

The Bush administration wants authority to spend up to $700 billion, or about the cost of the Iraq war, to buy up troubled loans.

You'll get a free gift if you spend up to three hundred yuan.

Bernard Hill would spend up to nine hours in make-up to become the aged Theoden.

Users in China spend up to an hour per day on the sites, compared with less than 15 minutes spent by Americans on YouTube.

On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his or her lifetime A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories.

Chalco could spend up to $14. 5bn, Mr Xiao said in a separate television interview.

I suggest you make an effort to spend up to 45 min to an hour making love and coming.

You'd better not marry such a mall rat. She will spend up your earnings.

We can't come down any more. But you'll get a free gift if you spend up to two hundred yuan.

Including the advertisers, who are expected to spend up to 20% less on airtime this year.

Rising inflation is a concern for the leadership in China where poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.

The average haircut costs about $45, but people can and do spend up to $800 per cut and style.

This has set off riots in some 40 of the world's poorer countries, where people spend up to 80 percent of their family incomes on food.

Sometimes they have to spend up to 5-6 hours a day just collecting water.

Inflation is politically volatile in China, where poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.

Therefore, they must spend up to 16 hours a day.

Inflation is a concern in China where poor families spend up to half their incomes on food.

Torkin Wakefield says the women spend up to 18 months in the program.

Poor countries will likely spend up to one hundred seventy billion dollars this year to import food -- up forty percent from last year.

Poor families in China already spend up to half their income on food.

Britons should spend up to 20 minutes in the sun every day to protect their bones, according to MPs.

I am willing to spend up to $3, 000.