The phrase "a budget of only" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when emphasizing the limited amount of money allocated for a specific purpose or project.
Example: "We are working with a budget of only $500 for the entire event, so we need to be very resourceful."
Alternatives: "a mere budget of" or "a limited budget of".
Still, he contends, with a budget of only $2 million a year, "we're practically a mendicant order".
Even the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, the industry's marketing arm, has a budget of only $400,000 a year.
With a budget of only $450 million a year -- one-thirtieth of NASA's $15.5 billion annual budget -- India has 13 satellites in orbit, produces some of the world's best remote imaging satellites and is planning to send a satellite to the moon by 2007 or 2008.
The National Coalition Against Legalised Gambling has a budget of only about $150,000 a year.
He has pulled it off, and on a budget of only £2.8 million.
With a budget of only $10 million, it might have been great.
Moreover, it was delivered on a budget of just $2m, only a quarter of which came from the local government.
Mali is one of only five African countries to have fully qualified for America's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), with its stringent criteria for good governance; that alone will bring in $460m over the next five years, a huge amount in a country with a government budget of only about $1.5 billion.How will Mr Touré spend this money?
In state cases, a defense counsel is sometimes given an investigation budget of only a thousand dollars; attorneys' fees can be capped at as little as thirty thousand dollars, even when a case demands more than a thousand hours of lawyering.
Mare Nostrum gave way to a "border protection" operation, with a monthly budget of only three million euros.
Remaking five teachers' lounges in five public schools in five states — and in less than three months, with a total budget of only $12,500 — was a big challenge.
