Sentence examples for costs consumed from inspiring English sources

Housing costs consumed 24percentt of income over all.

At public research universities, those costs consumed 28.3percentt of the budget in 2006, up from 27.7percentt in 1995.

Last quarter, compensation costs consumed 48percentt of the firm's net revenue of $3.99 billion, or $1.91 billion, a decrease of about $460 million from the first quarter.

Medical costs consumed 78 cents of every premium dollar for Aetna's employer-sponsored health plans, down from 81.6 cents in the fourth quarter of 2002, the company said.

In a city where the median household income is sixty-two theusand dollars, the median compensation package for a city employee had risen to a hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and last year pension costs consumed fifteen million dollars of the ninety-three-million-dollar general budget.

Yet in 2010, even with Medicare (including prescription drug coverage which took effect in 2006), out-of-pocket health care costs consumed over a third (37%) of the average Social Security check of seniors and their surviving spouses.

Shipping costs consume 40percentto50percentcent of the food aid budget, and delivering the food typically takes four months.

Today, health-care costs consume upward of seventeen per cent of the gross domestic product — more than double what it was in the seventies.

Transport costs consume nearly 13% of Brazil's GDP, five percentage points more than in the United States, according to Paulo Fleury of COPPEAD, a business school in Rio de Janeiro.

These are among the reasons health care costs consume 10.8percentt of gross domestic product in Switzerland, compared with 16percentt in the United States, the highest level of spending among industrial countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The administration contends that Congress has ample authority to impose the insurance mandate, arguing that health care costs consume 17% of the American economy and are susceptible to the federal regulation of national commerce.