"afford" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Unable to afford repairs, it considered selling the building.
- The island is being sold by the Cobb family, which has owned it for six generations, because it cannot afford the upkeep and repairs.
- Why are we doing this, if we can't afford repairs in any case?
- The station would not return to the air, because of the damages, and the owners' inability to afford repairs.
- Even with the extra money earned from ghostwriting novels and political columns, Luciano still can't afford repairs on a grand country home whose ceiling rains plaster on his head while he works.
- The nearest ambulance, in the firehouse at New Castle, less than a mile away, was out of service, because the local ambulance company could not afford repairs on the 12-year-old vehicle.
- Mahan was unable to afford repairs and decontamination and was forced to sell Larinda.
- The landlord couldn't afford repairs.
- She and her father cannot afford repairs, so they petition FeedTech for assistance.
- And from her house, now, she cannot even see the land; the windows are boarded up because she is unable to afford basic repairs.
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