Sentence examples for allowance over from inspiring English sources

The phrase "allowance over" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing financial allowances or limits, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The allowance over the budget was unexpected and needs to be addressed."
Alternatives: "excess allowance" or "allowance limit".

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Ms Smith's declaration that her primary residence is her sister's house in south-east London, where she pays £100 a week rent for a room, has allowed her to claim £116,000 in second-home allowance over five years for her family home in Redditch, Worcestershire, where her husband and children live.

Mr Malik had claimed £66,827 from the second home allowance over three years, the highest of any MP.

These showed that he had claimed a total of £82,450 on his second home allowance over five years.

She claims Jobseekers Allowance over the summer, has a boarded-up window that she cannot afford to repair and has no heating.

Clegg suggested that he favoured lifting the income tax allowance over lifting the employee's NICs threshold because the income tax policy was more popular.

The CBI is calling for a gradual increase in the threshold at which employees pay national insurance to £10,500 – bringing it line with the income tax personal allowance over the next parliament.

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If you have unused email allowances left over, sell them to those who want them.

The I.A.T.A. said this week that that study had been carried out before the organization knew airlines would be required to buy allowances over other states' airspace.

Small has also received $1.15 million in housing allowances over a six-year period in return for agreeing to use his 6,500-square-foot 6,500-square-foot 6,500-square-footn functions.

Labour insist that Marshall resigned on health grounds and not because he collected a total of £500,000 in parliamentary allowances over six years in part from employing his family.

I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).

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