Which preposition to use with spendings

of Occurrences 29%

The careless spending of time among servants, who are charged with the care of infants, is often fatal: the nurse frequently destroys the child!

for Occurrences 4%

© 17Oct44; A183492. Louis W. Doherty & Third National Bank of Hampden County (E of T. W. Burgess); 9Dec71; R518261. BURKE, ARVID J. Defensible spending for public schools.

in Occurrences 2%

How greatly do they err, who grudge children, especially very young children, the time which, in obedience to the dictates of their nature, they are so fond of spending in sports and gambols!

on Occurrences 2%

Instead of the occupational uniformity of the countryside, the city offers a wide range of occupations, increased productivity, quick and substantial profits resulting in a build-up of capital on one side and enlarged consumer spending on the other.

as Occurrences 1%

The sessions, too, had gradually come to be, not annual as in England, but biennial, the Lord-Lieutenant spending as a rule only six months in every two years in Ireland.

by Occurrences 1%

I am not a very nervous person, but I did not like the idea of spending by myself the long evening that would come after the children's bed-time.

Which preposition to use with  spendings