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excess of cost over budget
the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget
How To Use cost overrun In A Sentence
- Six days later the health board announced that because of cost overruns clinical and support staff were to be sacked.
- There was a ‘resistance to creating documents that would prove cost overruns or really inflated charges,’ she said.
- The issue arose in delegations due to rumors that the town was planning to raise taxes to pay for cost overruns on the recreation centre projects.
- He said he also could not say if there was a cost overrun on the Mason Hall project, since that was an issue between the owner, contractor and sub-contractor.
- The item estimate vs actual is 5% over budget (cost overrun) the project cost is under budget (project cost underrun). Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
- Between cost overruns and long-term upkeep, it will end up costing taxpayers a fortune -- and the illegal immigrants will just shift their border crossings to areas beyond the reach of the fence. David Wallechinsky: The Border Fence: A Work of Art?
- That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
- That stadium was blighted by cost overruns and delays. Times, Sunday Times
- No other type of megaproject is this consistent regarding cost overrun.
- Now the cost overrun is becoming the central issue, the social justice folks are becoming more interested in the tunnel issue than ever before. McGinn Outfoxes Council President Conlin « PubliCola