Sentence examples for close to budget from inspiring English sources

While the Asnises would have expected to be well over cost in headier times, the construction was "very, very, very close to budget".

Under the SSVCG framework, we propose a mechanism that is efficient and comes close to budget balance by returning much of the payments back to the agents in the form of rebates.

"I went into the free-agent situation thinking the odds were not good of getting a free agent, and they're still not good," said Milbury, who said his team is close to budget.

The United Nations along with several private individuals and dozens of other governments have donated books, furnishings, expertise and, in the case of France, a $7m computer system for cataloguing materials and accessing the Internet.Despite some delays, the builders have maintained high construction standards while staying close to budget.

While some projects come in close to budget the Flyvbjerg figures understate the overrun in the typical public and public private partnership projects (PPPs), as illustrated for hydropower projects (Ansar et al. 2014) and Table 2.

The predictability of the regular government district grants was high as such funds were disbursed regularly and disbursement levels were close to budget targets during the most recent years.

GM: The year-to-date numbers are moving upward, we are getting closer to budget and we are now taking market share from larger and more entrenched brands.

No hotels even close to my budget, no one listening to my desperate pleas on CouchSurfing.

One person close to the budget negotiations said, however, that the Assembly proposal was a nonstarter with the Paterson administration.

People close to the budget agency suggest that the productivity increase will be significant, but not overwhelming.

The gains won't come close to ending budget crises for many states.