Usage examples for expenditure
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If
he
had
waited
a
short
time,
he
might
have
taken
the
Upper
City
without
danger,
for
through
want
of
provisions
it
was
reduced
by
famine
to
extreme
necessity;
but
anxious
to
return
to
Rome,
and
fearing
a
new
revolution
there,
at
great
risk
fighting
many
battles
and
at
great
cost
he
urged
on
the
war,
wherein,
besides
the
rest
of
the
expenditure,
the
labour
about
the
military
engines
required
ten
thousand
pair
of
mules
to
be
daily
employed
on
this
service.
– Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart & George Long
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The
primary
schools
need
no
preliminary
expense;
the
ultimate
grade
requires
a
considerable
expenditure
in
advance.
– Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson