Sentence examples for minor expense from inspiring English sources

For a start, food is a relatively minor expense compared with staff costs and premises.

And new technologies that promise much higher fuel efficiency at minor expense, like hybrid gas-electric cars, are already available.

To have materials properly copywritten is, when one considers the whole process of publishing materials and the impact that the client wishes to make, a minor expense.

It takes your breath away, really: the same board that viewed Mr. Hurd's minor expense account shenanigans as intolerable has chosen as its new C.E.O.

When it comes to income tax we allow people to claim $300 worth of tax deductions without receipts because we think it petty to record of every minor expense.

And if a program is, like the NEA, a minor expense, legislators wonder: Why take the trouble, and experience the pain (the NEA's affluent clients fluently articulate their grievances and sense of entitlement), for a trivial gain?

The archdiocese's financial statement for that year, though it was audited and included details of relatively minor expenses, made no mention of the payment.

She chronicles her inner monologue over a pair of $99 shoes, the vast distances she will go out of her way in order to avoid minor expenses.

The budgeting form required itemization of gym memberships, cosmetics purchases, expenses like dry cleaning and manicures — in short, minor expenses that add up and "prevent people from long-term success".

"I was depressed, concerned I wasn't going to make my mortgage payment, my son's college bills or even pay the most minor expenses," he says of that time.

Goldsmith says he is not speaking out for the money; though he received a low six-figure advance for the book, he is, after deducting some minor expenses, donating the advance and any profits to charity.