Sentence examples for built up a decent from inspiring English sources

They have not built up a decent cushion of unemployment benefit.

EVEN for people who have built up a decent nest egg, deciding how to use it is one of the demands of early retirement.

15 MINUTES: "Carry On, Warrior," by the mommy blogger Glennon Doyle Melton, enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3. Melton has built up a decent following at her Web site, Momastery, where she posts frank personal essays about her faith, her family and her past struggles with bulimia and alcoholism.

So I took up Spanish Literature courses and became acquainted with Borges, Baroja, Mariano Azuela, Pérez Galdós, and through them I built up a decent vocabulary and phraseology.

So here is a suggestion from me: don't get ambitious about your student loan bill till you've built up a decent-sized emergency fund, at least three months worth of living expenses in a nice bank account.

It will affect people in their 40s or younger and will hit those unable to build up a decent private pension.

Alongside my studies my aim has been to try and build up a decent CV and get first hand experience outside of academic life and prepare for the 'real world' once that mortar board has hit the ground.

We're also trying to make it easier for people to save more while they are working: the state second pension helps 20 million low paid, carers and disabled people nationwide build up a decent provision.

It is encouraging that women are trying to pay back their debts, but once that is done they will need to save significant sums if they are to build up a decent pension".

'We are doing quite a bit of this now.' Most people taking advantage of the rule change are relatively well-off, but are feeling the pinch in the current economic climate: the self-employed or estate agents, for instance, who earned well enough to build up a decent pension over the last decade but whose income has taken a dip lately.

Australia know they could also build up a decent lead".