Examples of using Were spending in English and their translations into Spanish
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Surveys indicated that conference delegates were spending more- an increase of 52 per cent- between 1985 and 1993.
Las encuestas indicaron que los delegados a conferencias estaban gastando más(un aumento de 52%) entre 1985 y 1993.That time the operators were spending more time managing material than handling data.
En aquella época, los operadores dedicaban más tiempo a gestionar el material que a manejar los datos.The MLSTP leader claimed that the other political forces were spending large amounts of foreign funds for campaigning,
El líder del MLSTP/PSD afirmó que las otras fuerzas políticas estaban gastando grandes cantidades de fondos extranjeros para hacer campaña,To achieve parity with the US, the Soviets were spending nearly a quarter of their gross domestic product on defense.
Para lograr la paridad con los EE.UU. los soviéticos estaban gastando casi una cuarta parte de su producto interior bruto en defensa.in particular women with young children were spending more of their time on unpaid work.
en particular, las mujeres con niños pequeños dedicaban más tiempo a realizar trabajos no remunerados.young people were spending more years in school,
they had been paying a CPA to do their taxes for them, and they were spending a lot of money.
sus impuestos ellas mismas, le habían estado pagando a alguien para que se los hiciera y estaban gastando demasiado dinero.especially those who were closely involved with skateboarding, were spending hours doing bottle flipping.
sobre todo los vinculados al mundo del skate, pasan horas haciendo bottle flipping.Earl Sasser observed that businesses were spending more on customer acquisition than on retention.
Earl Sasser observaron que los negocios estaban gastando más en adquirir clientes que en retenerlos.Were spending a long time on business trips,
Black Sabbath were spending more time in America,
Countries that were currently unable to meet the most basic needs of their peoples were spending billions of dollars on weapons.
Los países que actualmente son incapaces de satisfacer las necesidades más básicas de su población están gastando miles de millones de dólares en armas.after leaving for a weekend only, we were spending the whole summer together.
Funny, you never asked where the money came from while you were spending it.
Es gracioso, nunca me preguntaste de dónde salió el dinero mientras te lo estabas gastando.Chess had picked up in Europe and pretty soon many of the clergy were spending more time playing Chess than saving souls.
El Ajedrez se popularizó en Europa y muy pronto la mayoría del Clero dedicaba mas tiempo al juego del Ajedrez que el rescatar almas.The money that the parties were spending on defence could be better used to implement important economic and social projects.
El dinero que gastan las partes en la defensa se puede usar mejor para poner en marcha importantes proyectos económicos y sociales.Some countries were spending 10 times more on debt-servicing than on education.
And here Piz thought you were spending all your time with a secret girlfriend.
Y va Piz y se cree que te habías pasado todo el tiempo con una novia secreta.They were spending a night on the sofa,
In 2013, landlocked developing countries were spending 87 per cent more time to export compared with their transit neighbours.
En 2013, los países en desarrollo sin litoral tardaban un 87% más en exportar que sus vecinos de tránsito.
