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Afford in sentence

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Why should we, especially if you can afford it?
And by the way, they said, the cost of the land, because it's in the center of the city, is three times more than what social housing can normally afford.
But sadly, this more for more model is running out of gas, for three reasons: First, a big portion of customers in the West because of the diminishing purchasing power, can no longer afford these expensive products.
Amazingly, 75 percent of the customers using this service are the middle-class French who can't afford high banking fees.
When I read that in The Advocate magazine this year, I realized I could no longer afford to keep silent.
"You should sell the house, downsize to something you can afford, sell the toys.
They drive a Mercedes, but their budget really only can afford a Honda.
There's only three things you need to know: how much people make inside the company, how much people make somewhere else in a similar business and how much we make in general to see whether we can afford it.
We missed each other terribly, but international phone calls were really expensive then, and we could only afford to speak for five minutes a week.
He said, "But here's the problem: If I let you in, the other tenants will move out and I can't afford to take that kind of a hit."
When I was 11, seeing some of my friends leaving the school because their parents could not afford textbooks made me angry.
But we know that some insecticides are very harmful to human health, especially when farmers and their families cannot afford proper protection, like these children.
We must ask if farmers in rural communities can thrive, and if everyone can afford the food.
Farmers there cannot afford the seed.
Much like in the days after 9/11, we simply cannot afford not to think about international security.
All this fancy technology but they can't afford heat.
She was from Mexico, she left her family behind so she could come here and afford them a better life back home.
We can't afford to waste a brain.
Now, because you've been able to afford the approximately gazillion pounds that it costs to get into a TED Talk, I'm guessing you guys could afford to be drinking vodka for the next six months.
If you want to buy a house but you can't afford to pay for it up front, the bank financiers, you see, can realize that future value now.
But it's also nurses, veterans and even schoolteachers who fall into the mass of 37 million people a year who are unable to afford energy for their most basic needs.
Conditions are very difficult, but we cannot afford to compromise on those principles which made AIMS work.
We can't afford the fanciest places to stay at night, so we tend to sleep a lot outdoors.
We also can't afford the fanciest restaurants.
I can't afford to pay the people smugglers to help me with the crossing to Britain, but I will go buy a wetsuit and I will swim."
We can no longer afford to shield the kids from the ugly truth because we need their imagination to invent the solutions.
Of those who do have access to just that unpaid leave, most women can't afford to take much of it at all.
One of my coworkers was only able to afford 10 days off with her baby."
The catch is that when this is happening to a new family, it is consuming, and a family with a new baby is more financially vulnerable than they've ever been before, so that new mother cannot afford to speak up on her own behalf.
He wouldn't have time to fight crime because he would be eating all the time and working a 9-to-5 job in order to afford all the food he eats.
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