"afford" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Though she could barely afford necessities, she wound up spending thousands on policies she did not need.
- Scientists are an inordinate luxury these days-and there aren't many people or establishments left who're able to afford necessities, let alone luxuries.
- Because many of the Starters were unable to work, the aftermath leaves many of them starving and desperate due to not having funds to afford necessities.
- Even in Costa Rica, the richest and most stable of the isthmus's six countries, two of five families are unable to afford basic necessities.
- Our research on what it costs such families to afford basic necessities yields values far higher than the poverty lines.
- I can barely afford necessities.
- There, Aid for Families with Dependent Children benefits are so low - $120 and $118 respectively - that a family cannot even afford basic necessities.
- Living wage ordinances require private businesses that do business with the government to pay their workers a wage that enables them to afford basic necessities.
- Nearly one-third of Americans are "shelter poor," spending so much of their income on housing that they cannot afford other necessities, a study released today said.
- As the nation has grown richer, more people have been able to afford not only basic necessities but also as many televisions and cars as they wanted.
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