- finance
- 01. The Minister of [Finance] has just announced a reduction in personal income taxes for lower income families.02. We hired a [financial] advisor to help us organize our company a bit better.03. She enjoys her job, but [financially] it's not the greatest.04. The resignation of the senior administrator is seen as an acknowledgement that the company is in serious [financial] difficulty.05. We need to be a bit more careful with our household [finances] because our bank balance is getting pretty low.06. The government has announced a special program to help [finance] new small businesses.07. Children in this country are often [financially] independent from their parents by the age of 19 or 20.08. My father's company has been experiencing some [financial] difficulties, so they are going to have to lay off some staff.09. Studies show that elderly people are more likely to give [financial] help to their children than they are to receive it.10. A major obstacle to development of the poorer nations is the [financing] of the very expensive industrialization process.11. Dick Cavett once remarked that as long as people will accept crap, it will be [financially] profitable to dispense it.12. There is an African-American proverb which states that romance without [finance] don't stand a chance.13. The original thirteen colonies of the United States were [financed] with the help of money raised by selling lottery tickets.14. The work of the great composer Tchaikovsky was [financed] by a wealthy widow for thirteen years.15. Before the civil war began in Lebanon in 1975, Beirut was considered by many to be the [financial] center of the Middle East.16. Farming in Kuwait is practiced at great [financial] cost in order to reduce the country's dependence on imported food.17. Household [finances] are generally handled by the women in Burmese society.18. The tiny country of Brunei is very dependent on revenues from oil and natural gas to [finance] its development programmes.19. In April of 1992, a bomb planted by the IRA exploded in London's [financial] district; three people were killed and 91 injured.20. In 1931, German industrialists [financed] the 800,000 member Nazi party.21. Men seem to value attractiveness in their mate, whereas women put more emphasis on [financial] prospects.22. Mary Wollstonecraft once suggested that a woman's [financial] dependence on a man in marriage was 'legal prostitution.'23. They have found some interested [financiers] who are willing to bankroll their new movie.24. [Financing] a new business is a risky operation; you could lose a lot of money.25. An anonymous [financier] has donated over one million dollars to help build a new cancer research facility at the university.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.