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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were expenses" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing past financial matters or costs incurred during a specific time period. Example: "In the last quarter, there were expenses that exceeded our budget projections."
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were expenses
noun
A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
Exact(8)
If I had read every page carefully, I would have seen that there were expenses that would be challenged.
"They were expenses that were made in the interests of Rome," Marino wrote on his Facebook page.
Those events, Mr. Griffith explained in a recent telephone interview, were expenses settling legal battles with a Sloter relative who sued the estate.
Kimberly Peeler-allen, a fund-raising consultant who has worked for numerous candidates running for state and city office, said, however, that there were expenses that cannot be spared.
For the period that ended April 30, the company posted a loss of $862 million, or $1.65 a share, compared with a loss of $1.44 billion, or $2.87 a share, in the quarter a year earlier, when there were expenses to close 283 stores and sell inventory.
One former board member, Ross W. Dembling, has complained that there were expenses for travel that had little or no relation to United Way and that $85,000 allocated to make restrooms more accessible to the handicapped had gone to decorate the office of the charity's new chief executive, Norman O. Taylor.
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First, there are expenses to consider.
All other business functions are expenses.
However, there are expenses to acquiring and maintaining sheepdogs.
These are expenses of a non-financial nature.
These are expenses beyond the normal household budget.
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