Sentence examples for lent too much from inspiring English sources

The banks lent too much to soccer.

But if they borrowed too much others lent too much.

Bankers lent too much money to poor people who never should have bought homes.

Perhaps they had lent too much, in one form or another.

Banks have lent too much money to clients who cannot pay it back.

Builders built too much, lenders lent too much, and people bought too much.

But some analysts said that Lucent's precarious condition meant that banks would not want to risk lending too much.

Credit officers tend to lend too much in good times, heating up the economy, and then cut back too much in a downturn, making things worse.

That means they are likely to find themselves lending too much when times are good and contracting too sharply when they are bad, exaggerating booms and busts.

After all, this crisis — and the recession that arrived with it — was caused by banks lending too much, at credit standards that were too low.

But the country's 1,278 banks still lend too much to a few big borrowers and too little to ordinary people.