Sentence examples for expenditure about from inspiring English sources

Their bodies had compensated for the walking and kept their overall energy expenditure about the same.

3 Of the total growth of public healthcare expenditure, about a quarter is the result of ageing.

Of the total government expenditure, about 5% is allocated to the health sector [ 11] and the public health care facilities provide services free of charge to all.

49 In 2008/2009, research expenditure in the health sciences was 14.8% of the total research and development expenditure (about 0.14% of GDP).

Public expenditure is about to be cut back to unprecedented levels, if the Institute for Fiscal Studies is to be believed.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development calculated that capacity building accounts for 25% of aid expenditure, representing about US$15bn£12bnbn) a year.

He estimated that even with a daily expenditure of about $5 a day, the city's 800,000 commuters would easily spend more than $1 billion.

The aid that South Africa receives makes up less than 1% of government expenditure, and about 0.3% of national income; the same as the early 1990s.

This equates to an average proportion of remittances as a share of total household expenditure of about 10%%.

A one-year increase in aspirations yields an average increase in schooling expenditure of about 12% per child per year.

For this sample, the average proportion of remittances as a share of total household expenditure is about 21%%.