Sentence examples for billable value from inspiring English sources

Since the Industrial Revolution, the ticking clock has measured a worker's worth, whether it's the billable value of your efforts or the time you're wasting at a desk when you should be almost anywhere else.

These disparities are a result of a law that caps the billable amount real estate values can increase each year, resulting over the long term in major distortions in how residential properties are valued across the city.

A few years ago, he said, he realized that the billable hour was undercutting his value — it was his profession's commodity, suggesting to clients that he and his colleagues were interchangeable containers of finite, measurable units that could be traded for money.

The cost is represented by the number of billable hours rather than the expected cash value of the services.

But clients complain that this practice values the quantity of hours billed over quality and encourages padding.If the billable hour does perish, it will be at the hands of the clients, rather than the private-practice lawyers themselves.

This gentlemanly Boston lawyer (whose motto, "I'll trade billable hours for a day of trout fishing any time," tells you a lot about his Yankee values) takes his sweet time getting into the case that William G. Tapply hands him in SCAR TISSUE (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95).

That should keep the billable hours coming.

"I ran out of billable hours".

(Look for the "exclude from global billable usage" setting).

LAWYERS hate keeping track of their billable hours.

-Mindy Getch Everyone loves you when you're billable.