Although savings specialists have long been calling for an increase in allowances, some were unimpressed with the chancellor's response.
Sir Timothy Shelley gave his grandson Percy Florence an increase in his allowance for his twenty-first birthday, allowing Mary Shelley and Percy Florence to plan a second, longer trip to the Continent.
Economy Abolition of inheritance tax and an increase in personal allowance to at least £13,000.
Keyshawn Johnson knew that he would probably be traded when, at the owners' meetings two weeks ago, Groh compared the receiver asking for a new contract to a child asking for an increase in his allowance, a remark that infuriated Johnson.
It was the team's comments this week that seemed to have set Johnson off, particularly Groh's remarks likening the team's refusal to renegotiate to a parent turning down a child's request for an increase in his allowance.
By J. Graubard and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, October 27, 1951 P. 26 An eight-year-old girl, a recent visitor to the Hayden Planetarium, upon receiving an increase in her allowance, endorsed her father thus: "You're the best daddy in the whole world, including outer space".
A recent European Food Standards Agency report (EFSA AHAW panel, 2005) proposed an increase in space allowance for growing pigs.
When the Prince of Wales applied to Parliament for an increase in his allowance, an open quarrel broke out.
Find a job, get an increase in your allowance or pay, or revisit your budget.
It would, for example, be a really bad time to ask for an increase in your allowance or if your folks can help you with your credit card payment this month.
