The phrase "run over budget" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it when discussing a project or task that has exceeded its allotted budget. For example: - "The construction project ran over budget due to unexpected materials costs." - "We need to revise our budget since our expenses have run over." - "The film production went significantly over budget, causing financial strain for the studio."
But the standards of the safety and regulatory sign-off of the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant has been called into question by experts, who believe the construction will run over budget or fail.
The Brazilian government's preparations for the World Cup have been repeatedly criticised, as they have run over budget and behind schedule.
"From what I've found they do run over budget, but they're definitely not in the state that we are".
Much of Halliburton's business comes from big construction projects, like natural gas processing plants, which sometimes run over budget.
For example, school construction costs did run over budget when Mr. Thompson was president of the Board of Education.
She was rightly irritated to be described as a diva, as if leading male architects were entitled to make extreme demands on construction techniques or run over budget, while a female architect who did the same was behaving irrationally.
During his tenure, state investigators found that dozens of schools had inflated student attendance records, and school construction projects routinely ran over budget by tens of millions of dollars.
HS2 is running over-budget, with the latest estimates up to the £50bn mark with an end date of 2033.
As a result, there is no way for the public to know if these projects are running over-budget, over-time, or have been granted "red" status, meaning "successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable".
Defence spending on operations abroad is already running over budget.
But the project ran over budget and did not meet its targets.
