"budget stretching" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of making one's budget last longer or cover more expenses than initially planned. Example: Jane was able to travel for two weeks instead of one by budget stretching and finding affordable accommodations and activities.
Despite his budget stretching to snag the richest rapper of all time, unfortunately there was no sign of Dido for Stan tonight, her part as an ill-fated pregnant girlfriend instead played by a glamorous backing vocalist in a leotard.
ALBANY — With the impasse over how to cut more than $3 billion from the state budget stretching into its fourth week, Gov. David A. Paterson said on Monday that he would withhold payments that are due to local governments over the next several months, a move that threatened to squeeze social service providers, schools and municipal governments.
In the latest example of budget stretching at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency's basic science institute is imposing a strict one-grant limit on scientists who already have plentiful no-strings support.
Edencroft Wines has the 2008 vintage on offer at £75, if your budget stretches that far.
As he explains some of his new understanding of his family tree, I sense the researchers on Who Do You Think You Are? might find their budget stretched.
"It begins to explain why people have fallen back on food banks as one way of making an inadequate budget stretch further".
Chasing retired entertainers, rather than negotiating to buy expensive documents held by knowledgeable collectors, made a modest acquisitions budget stretch so much further.
But that's unlikely to happen — particularly not as the park budget stretches to accommodate newer parkland on difficult marine and brownfield sites, and has to react to natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy.
Anticipating, rightly, that her Manhattan digs would be cramped and her budget stretched, Ms. Werkheiser, 26, shipped 18 boxes of her clothes to her parents' house in Omaha before moving here from San Francisco.
But that's unlikely to happen particularly not as the park budget stretches to accommodate newer parkland on difficult marine and brownfield sites, and has to react to natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy.
Increasing class sizes in UK schools could make the education budget stretch further without damaging standards, according to an international analysis of the "efficiency" in education spending.
