The budget of nearly $350,000 will pay for more than 100 performers to appear each day on five stages, including one devoted to children's entertainment.

The public budget is paying for far more than human genome sequencing.

The budget, she said, would pay for "not the extravagant, but the essential."

Its $25 million annual budget would be spent locally, whereas the county gets back about 50 percent of the taxes paid to the state.

The city's $608,000 budget for the zoo pays operating expenses.

Federal agencies would devote more resources to security; their budgets will pay for any failures.

We got a budget barely pays for the paper clips.

The hotel that his budget was paying for, he reminded himself crossly.

However, national budgets pay for some useful things, such as defence, education, health care and pensions.

The second point is that the budget only pays lip service to energy policy in Europe.