He said the investigators spent about five hours in the room.

He suspects that investigators spend little time checking if insiders who have made their plans public are following the rules.

After the 20-day course at Satterwhite, investigators spend four months in the field with a supervisor.

He also said the plan would reduce the amount of time the investigators spend working on unrelated details in uniform, like parades.

The investigators had spent most of last night and this morning in the master bedroom.

As a result, the investigators have spent months trying to corroborate every important and mundane detail mentioned on them.

The action was the result of a preliminary inquiry in which state investigators spent seven days at the nursing home monitoring its activities.

The investigators spent about 40 minutes inside the apartment and declined to speak to reporters when they emerged.

There were so many property crimes in the city that the investigators spent most of their time taking reports and processing the occasional arrest.

He thought private investigators spent their days "chasing somebody's wife because she was having an affair."