How to Use over budget in a Sentence
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The trains were shut down for two-and-a-half months for repairs that went $3 million over budget.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
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The Pettit is already near or over budget for electric and gas and well over costs of a year ago.
—Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
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For starters, the project is already wildly over budget.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
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Bedrock also is over budget on the project — and must cover most of those overruns.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2023
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In what ways? There was a tremendous battle over budget and what the cast was to be paid in the final season of Dear White People.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
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With more stage room to work with than their previous, 2022 tour, the ideas for the stage design are next level… and just a tad bit over budget.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
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The biggest problem with car loans is that the spike in prices [during the pandemic] caused people to get in over budget.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
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Risks were taken on photo shoots; shows ran over budget.
—New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
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Whoosh was more than $1 billion over budget, and four years late, on its first $7.2 billion segment.
—Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
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And there’s $5 million for the World Games, a thing which already happened in Birmingham but ran over budget.
—Kyle Whitmire, al, 29 Mar. 2023
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That said, Design Within Reach can lead you to go over budget quickly, since many of the pieces are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
—Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
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That said, Design Within Reach can lead you to go over budget quickly, since many of the pieces are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
—Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
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The project finished $187 million over budget and two years behind schedule.
—Camille Squires, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2022
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The audit found the food department was hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget.
—María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
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Still, the Vogtle expansion has been plagued by delayed and is billions over budget.
—Drew Kann, ajc, 17 Aug. 2023
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The four-stop, subterranean light-rail line was three years behind schedule and $335 million over budget.
—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
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The Elizabeth Line is four years late, wildly over budget, and beautiful as hell.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
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That follows years of delays and costs running $1 billion over budget.
—Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
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Roar went millions over budget, forcing Hedren and Marshall to pay for much of the production from their own pockets, and the film took 11 years to complete.
—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 23 May 2023
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Proposals for the extension came in roughly 35% over budget, The Star has learned, which set off a scramble over the summer to find more money and look for ways to cut costs.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
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Australian officials said 28 projects are delayed—some by three or four years—and 18 are over budget, with cost overruns in the billions of dollars.
—Mike Cherney, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
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But the entire schedule is subject to change, as NASA works out kinks in rocket, which is more than $1 billion over budget and years behind schedule.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
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None of this is to suggest the producers of these shows were irresponsible in their spending or went way over budget.
—Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
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The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again.
—Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
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Over the course of its development, the telescope ran billions of dollars over budget and was finished more than a decade behind schedule.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
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But criticism has come quickly for the proposals over budget concerns since most loans would not be repaid in full.
—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
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Many tasks do not need to be tightly sequenced, but if critical path tasks don’t happen on schedule, the project is delayed and will often go over budget.
—Steve Banker, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
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No large reactors are planned, and the last few projects of that sort were either canceled or ran horrifically over budget.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
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Bids for that work came in over budget and were rejected Monday by commissioners.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2023
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While the project comes in over budget, it could also be completed faster than originally anticipated.
—Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
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