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The phrase "allowances 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 budget report indicated that allowances over the initial estimates were necessary to cover unexpected expenses."
Alternatives: "exceeding allowances" or "allowances above".
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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.
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).
The first MP to formally put his name forward for the post of Speaker has already come under fire from the Telegraph for claiming £117,000 in second home allowances over eight years.
Claimed nothing in second home allowances over the past four years because his Twickenham constituency is close enough to Westminster to allow him to commute - and he always gets the last train home.
They paid his former Japanese club $13,125,000 for the rights to him, then signed him to a three-year, $14 million contract in which they also pay him $78,000 in housing allowances over three years and a one-time moving allowance of $10,000.
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If you have unused email allowances left over, sell them to those who want them.
Teams get relatively few chances to play for the title (unless they inhabit the SEC, with its allowances for over-recruiting players), so it is imperative to break through when the opportunity arises.
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.
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.
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