But it is the biggest single outlay of time and energy for me in a week and if I had a job with long hours, or children to look after alone, I couldn't do it all the time.
The centrepiece of the big feast, this is probably the biggest single outlay you'll make on food this Christmas, so do your homework.
For someone who had just authorised a £156m outlay on a single player yet to win either the Masters or Open, Nike Golf president Cindy Davis spent Monday's news conference wearing a wide smile.
Marketing a single blockbuster in the US costs between $75m and $100m, a huge outlay that makes profitability more elusive – but does not benefit the industry as a whole.
As the Tories have promised to ring-fence the NHS, an even sharper reduction in expenditure lies ahead for unprotected areas such as defence and transport.These grim projections assume that welfare spending, the biggest single public outlay, will remain broadly intact.
Yet City spent £28m on Swansea striker Wilfried Bony in January, the single biggest outlay by an English club in the winter transfer window.
In the single biggest outlay, the ministry wants more than 100bn yen to upgrade Japan's Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missiles, seen as the last line of defence against a nuclear or conventional attack by North Korea.
The price of turkey steaks has also fallen by more than 8 per cent, while the price of the single biggest outlay – champagne – has sunk 6 per cent from £30.74 to £28.85, the ONS said.
Is an advertisement an operating outlay or an asset acquisition?
Spread across many governments, it need not be a large budgetary outlay for any single donor – presently, though, the funds and political will required to fill this gap are non-existent.
