Use "afford to" in a sentence

1. The fund can afford to maintain a large research team for advising on buy/sell decisions

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2. With no job, I dare not get into financial difficulties with paying rent … I can’t afford to leave the house in Bridgwater empty either …

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3. I can’t afford to stay here now

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4. ‘But I can’t afford to pay any rent

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5. But on the other hand, he couldn't afford to be without Mirielle's information

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6. "I think we can afford to let you finish up that day school

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7. ‘I wouldn’t have thought you could afford to be picky, Elizabeth

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8. She knew the polite thing to do would be to go into the kitchen and thank Sarah and Saya for their hospitality, but she was afraid they would offer her something they clearly could not afford to

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9. The developers, all five of them, were under contracts so stringent they could probably not afford to ever leave

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10. cannot afford to feel offended

11. We watched a quiz show where the contestants could win holidays and electrical goods, anything right up to a small family car, just for guessing the price of an item that they probably could not afford to buy

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12. Not to mention, I really can't afford to lose anything else

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13. You can afford to stick to things that you are very particular about

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14. What eventually happens is that you get to the point where you can’t afford to keep your family land

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15. It would take a very strong person to run this camp as smooth as she had; you couldn’t afford to be sentimental about things when there are over 100 lives riding on your decisions

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16. There was also still a lot of animosity from the people who couldn't afford to prolong their lives

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17. I could probably afford to replace the blind … maybe I could have a look round the shops tomorrow for a new one

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18. What if they were aware of how much I knew? If they had a mere scintilla of suspicion they'd never let me return to shore, they couldn't afford to

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19. Alastair and I really must talk about money and how much we can afford to pay in rent

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20. “You are sure that Lord Boras has left for his Hold, Gordon; I cannot afford to have him wandering about when our guests arrive

21. We are a small organization and we can't afford to hire a grant writer, accountant, and lawyer to help us seek a Federal grant

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22. “He is probably so dazzled by my report that he"s speechless! He"s probably worried that I"ll end up being promoted to HIS job! Maybe he realizes now that he can"t afford to pay me the millions of dollars a year that I"m worth

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23. I wanted to go as well, but I couldn't afford to

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24. I’ve made some sound investments, and I can afford to buy it

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25. Jim does the same and says, "Look, sorry about this, but we can't afford to buy drinks and drugs

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26. Pretty soon he had friends I couldn’t afford to hang with, then within three decades he was in that house, ‘caretaking’ he said, the first decade or two anyway

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27. 'We can’t afford to keep you beyond the end of the

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28. that you cannot afford to be so on this occasion

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29. But is my boat safe there? It’s not really mine, I couldn’t afford to replace it

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30. I don’t even NEED shoes, but I can afford to buy them because I’m filthy, stinking rich! Those shoes cost more than the crummy shack you call a home that your family lives in!

31. afford to pay for an Inn

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32. This family cannot afford to

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33. I would love to visit the city and you as soon as I could afford to

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34. However, the sad fact is that I cannot afford to pay at this time so if you are fortunate enough to have somebody offer you the money to travel to the US for a visit, you would be very welcome stay with me and I could pay your expenses here in the US

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35. This great mortality, however will everywhere be found chiefly among the children of the common people, who cannot afford to tend them with the same care as those of better station

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36. Stock employed in the purchase and improvement of such lands, must yield a very large profit, and, consequently, afford to pay a very large interest

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37. Their price necessarily rises more or less, and yields a greater profit to those who deal in them, who can, therefore, afford to borrow at a higher interest

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38. The interest which the borrower can afford to pay is in proportion to the clear profit only

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39. Rent, considered as the price paid for the use of land, is naturally the highest which the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land

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40. Whatever part of the produce, or, what is the same thing, whatever part of its price, is over and above this share, he naturally endeavours to reserve to himself as the rent of his land, which is evidently the highest the tenant can afford to pay in the actual circumstances of the land

41. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take, but to what the farmer can afford to give

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42. In their eyes, the merit of an object, which is in any degree either useful or beautiful, is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it; a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves

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43. As the prices, both of the precious metals and of the precious stones, is regulated all over the world by their price at the most fertile mine in it, the rent which a mine of either can afford to its proprietor is in proportion, not to its absolute, but to what may be called its relative fertility, or to its superiority over other mines of the same kind

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44. In consequence of such reductions, many mines may be wrought which could not be wrought before, because they could not afford to pay the old tax ; and the quantity of silver annually brought to market, must always be somewhat greater, and, therefore, the value of any given quantity somewhat less, than it otherwise would have been

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45. But unless the price of the cattle be sufficient to pay both the rent and profit of cultivated land, the farmer cannot afford to pasture them upon it ; and he can still less afford to feed them in the stable

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46. These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all ; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little

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47. The plenty not only obliges him to sell cheaper, but, in consequence of these improvements, he can afford to sell cheaper; for if he could not afford it, the plenty would not be of long continuance

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48. Their quantity, in every particular country, seems to depend upon two different circumstances ; first, upon its power of purchasing, upon the state of its industry, upon the annual produce of its land and labour, in consequence of which it can afford to employ a greater or a smaller quantity of labour and subsistence, in bringing or purchasing such superfluities as gold and silver, either from its own mines, or from those of other countries; and, secondly, upon the fertility or barrenness of the mines which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world with those metals

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49. Countries which have a great quantity of labour and subsistence to spare, can afford to purchase any particular quantity of those metals at the expense of a greater quantity of labour and subsistence, than countries which have less to spare

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50. A poor country, as it cannot afford to buy more, so it can as little afford to pay dearer for gold and silver than a rich one ; and the value of those metals, therefore, is not likely to be higher in the former than in the latter

51. It raises the price of animal food ; because a great part of the land which produces it, being rendered fit for producing corn, must afford to the landlord anti farmer the rent and profit of corn land

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52. He endeavours, therefore, both to make among his workmen the most proper distribution of employment, and to furnish them with the best machines which he can either invent or afford to purchase

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53. Their riches or poverty depend upon the abundant or sparing supplies which those two capitals can afford to the stock reserved for immediate consumption

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54. The gross rent of a private estate comprehends whatever is paid by the farmer; the neat rent, what remains free to the landlord, after deducting the expense of management, of repairs, and all other necessary charges; or what, without hurting his estate, he can afford to place in his stock reserved for immediate consumption, or to spend upon his table, equipage, the ornaments of his house and furniture, his private enjoyments and amusements

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55. Though we frequently, therefore, express a person's revenue by the metal pieces which are annually paid to him, it is because the amount of those pieces regulates the extent of his power of purchasing, or the value of the goods which he can annually afford to consume

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56. Still less could a bank afford to advance him any considerable part of his fixed capital ; of the capital which the undertaker of an iron forge, for example, employs in erecting his forge and smelting-houses, his work-houses, and warehouses, the dwelling-houses of his workmen, etc

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57. Merchants brought in stocks from Cyrenaica and Egypt, but only the rich could afford to eat bread now

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58. not afford to give less than five days for preparation

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59. could not afford to lose even a single moment

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60. I wanted to sleep but couldn’t afford to

61. The security of a landed estate, therefore, the protection which its owner could afford to those who dwelt on it, depended upon its greatness

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62. She could not afford to have him wary of her

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63. We trust, with perfect security, that the freedom of trade, without any attention of government, will always supply us with the wine which we have occasion for; and we may trust, with equal security, that it will always supply us with all the gold and silver which we can afford to purchase or to employ, either in circulating our commodities or in other uses

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64. Kelia said that her mother can't afford to pay each month for online access to the internet

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65. But if foreigners, either by prohibitions or high duties, are hindered from coming to sell, they cannot always afford to come to buy ; because, coming without a cargo, they must lose the freight from their own country to Great Britain

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66. They’re the kind of values that made you grow up without a father, in a shitty district that you can't afford to leave

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67. Can’t afford to

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68. The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market

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69. The prohibition of exportation cannot detain a greater quantity of gold and silver in Spain and Portugal, than what they can afford to employ, than what the annual produce of their land and labour will allow them to employ, in coin, plate, gilding, and other ornaments of gold and silver

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70. But as he could not afford to employ the latter for less than the ordinary profits of farming stock, so he could as little afford to employ the former for less than the ordinary profits of mercantile stock

71. The farmer, therefore, who was thus forced to exercise the trade of a corn merchant, could not afford to sell his corn cheaper than any other corn merchant would have been obliged to do in the case of a free competition

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72. Above all, Professor Spanners insists that we cannot afford to suffer a single butterfly to live - one careless flap of a wing could mean the end of all life on the planet

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73. He couldn't afford to let the agency know that he didn't intend to take up their special offer

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74. Though he wondered just how long he could afford to haunt footsteps and shadows in search of veiled truths

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75. The greater the revenue of the people, therefore, the greater the annual produce of their land and labour, the more they can afford to the sovereign

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76. The quantity will always be suited, with more or less exactness, to the consumption of those who can afford to pay for it; and the price which they will pay will always be in proportion to the eagerness of their competition

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77.  You can afford to buy this book

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78. day and cannot adequately afford to pay for the

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79. It tends to reduce the quantity of every sort of produce, even that of the necessaries of life, whenever the servants of the country choose to deal in them, to what those servants can both afford to buy and expect to sell with such a profit as pleases them

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80. “So, water expands when it freezes, it could burst the tubs, we’d lose some and I don’t think we can afford to do that

81. ‘I couldn’t afford to learn it

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82. They needed to stay undetected, and they couldn’t afford to blow it

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83. “Who can afford to buy such expensive goods?” I asked, amazed at what I was hearing

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84. Their expense, too, their grandeur and magnificence, must be suited to what that commerce can afford to pay

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85. ” I replied I know exactly how you feel but we can’t afford to hang around this killing ground we must carry on or we will end up the same way

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86. In the business of being an Arrow, you couldn’t afford to invest your emotions

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87. We can’t afford to fire weapons in here

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88. Alex couldn’t afford to go with them during their limited time, but the gods were not completely without power

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89. The landlord can afford to try experiments, and is generally disposed to do so

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90. risen so fast that the next generation of locals could no longer afford to live here

91. tried to locate them, but I couldn’t afford to hunt them

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92. More or less can be got for it, according as the competitors happen to be richer or poorer, or can afford to gratify their fancy for a particular spot of ground at a greater or smaller expense

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93. The more a man pays for the tax, the less, it is evident, he can afford to pay for the rent

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94. He pays the tax piece-meal, as he can afford to pay it, and when he can afford to pay it, and every act of payment is perfectly

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95. If these commodities were delivered out for home consumption, the importer not being obliged to advance the tax till he had an opportunity of selling his goods, either to some dealer, or to some consumer, he could always afford to sell them cheaper than if he had been obliged to advance it at the moment of importation

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96. Wasn't it amazing what some people could afford to throw out! He tried them on

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97. If there was no tythe either in Great Britain or Ireland, the landlords could afford to pay six or seven millions additional land tax, without being more burdened than a very great part of them are at present

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98. America pays no tythe, and could, therefore, very well afford to pay a land tax

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99. without that income, she couldn’t afford to feed all her beloved pets, not with her family situation being how it was

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100. We could not afford to keep six cats