Sentence examples for allowance at a time from inspiring English sources

He said that his company ensured that students were paid a fair allowance at a time when many would work for free just to gain experience.

The 1981 budget saw a significant tightening of policy (mainly through a failure to raise personal tax allowances) at a time when the economy was in a deep recession.

My own gripe would be that the chancellor failed to tell the watching voter that he is freezing personal allowances at a time of 3% inflation, thereby pulling in a £1bn or so of extra income tax via what is known as "fiscal drag".

In Fig. 6 we explore these by showing the probability of having returned to work from state 4 (work assessment allowance) at any time, with corresponding confidence intervals, for the two scenarios in Fig. 5.

George Osborne said he would cut a "supplementary charge" rate from 32%to30%0%, extend other breaks from six to 10 years and provide a new allowance targeted on certain areas, at a time of increasing redundancies in Aberdeen.

In fact, income growth in the first year of a president's term probably reduces his expected vote margin, perhaps because voters make some allowance at election time for the good or bad economic conditions a president has inherited.

Beth Grossman, head of policy and research at disability charity Scope, said: "Half a million disabled people will be affected by the reduction in employment and support allowance – losing around £30 a week – at a time when they are already struggling to make ends meet.

He no longer gave her a regular allowance, and he was gone for weeks at a time.

Rather than handing over a sizable sum of money or doling it out a dollar at a time, a weekly allowance give the child a source of income that he or she can learn to make decisions about.

Defending the measure, Darling said the personal allowance bands were frozen because they were set at a time of negative inflation, in September.

The budget outlined changes to Newstart and Youth Allowance for unemployed people under 30 that would see them receive no income support for six months at a time.