Sentence examples for chunk of the budget from inspiring English sources

A good chunk of the budget each year is spent during the fourth quarter.

The largest chunk of the budget was going toward consumer ads, targeting both men and women, in Christian magazines.

But that is still a big chunk of the budget for a poor or middle-class family.

Another chunk of the budget went to the post-production 3-D conversion, done in South Korea (much like elective cosmetic surgery).

Its mission is not human exploration for its own sake, nor off-planet colonisation, yet human spaceflight consumes a large chunk of the budget.

One of his allies in the cabinet, the regional-development and public-works minister, Kostadin Paskalev, is already squaring up to fight for his chunk of the budget.

Peter J. Schmitt, the leader of the Republican minority, said that "big chunks of the budget" raised questions because Mr. Gulotta had not provided enough detail.

The reason is simple: though plenty of states and cities have managed to maintain healthy pension funds, in many places pension costs are eating up huge chunks of the budget.

As state legislators struggle to find ways to adhere to the popular will, some are now wondering whether it was a good idea to let people shape big chunks of the budget by voter initiatives, leaving the messy details to lawmakers.

With promises, by all parties, to increase spending on the NHS, and pay and manpower taking a large part of the defence budget, and with two large aircraft carriers, and, later, a new fleet of Trident nuclear missile submarines, biting a large chunk out of the budget, the army is in the firing line.

The budget shortfall shrank to $2 billion this year from $3.5 billion last year, mostly from cutting a big chunk of the education budget.