The effort required to get people there would have eaten up a lot of cash.
Each pie had a slice cut out to represent retirement savings being eaten up by fees.
If a few farmers brought too many cows there, the grass would be completely eaten up.
The flowers die, the candy gets eaten up, and the lingerie gets destroyed in a couple minutes.
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Argentines' access to their savings - being rapidly eaten up by inflation - is a highly sensitive issue.
You can see that, with those numbers, an additional salary could easily be eaten up in taxes and childcare.
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They survived, but left the wreck to be eaten up by the jungle.
The economic impact of the riots, alongside rising food prices, has "eaten up" U.S. economic aid for 2011, he notes.
Public finances are still far too shaky, the state too eaten up with corruption, the rule of law a fiction.
It hurts because you know every time you go to work a big chunk of your paycheck is being eaten up.
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The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
By 1900, steamships had shrunk the Atlantic even more, while railroads and the telegraph had eaten up the vastness of America's plains.
If you are a twenty-year-old male of unvarnished social aptitude, those movies will seem like much-loved classics that have eaten up half your lifetime.
Nicolas Cage plays a man called Roy, who is both a head case paranoid, agoraphobic, eaten up by nervous tics and a smooth professional con artist.
Living in New York, for example, costs more than twice as much as the national average, so paychecks get eaten up by rent bills.
It has eaten up capital over the past century like almost no other business because people seem to keep coming back to it and putting fresh money in.
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Creating a content marketing budget line item could save you a substantial amount of money on other line items that have eaten up your budget in the past.
And of course many have paid decades of taxes on the basis they could benefit when they retired only to see their savings eaten up by care costs.
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Not great, but not a tragedy either: with just a few minutes left he had taken one for the team and eaten up a bit of the clock.
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"I really feel that the only reason Bollywood has not been eaten up by Hollywood like other film industries, is because of our song and dance, " said Khan.
But that number has been flat for years, and researchers are feeling the squeeze as more and more of their grant money is eaten up by fixed costs.
One consequence is that funds must display in financial reports their expense ratios--the percent of your money that gets eaten up every year in management fees and other overhead.
Adult hardback books, meanwhile, are off 1.5% since 1997, a sign of the increasing amount of people's leisure time eaten up by the Web, DVDs and the proliferation of television channels.
"Banks had a better performance year in 2012 but their improved core profits were eaten up by fines and other exceptional items, leaving them down on 2011, " said Bill Michael of KPMG.
He and Ornstein did not get much time to talk during the abbreviated session, as much of the morning was eaten up by senators' duelling statements over what these new hearings mean.
Another of Mr Souza's policies, which his successor would do well to continue and expand, was to send cash straight to schools, to avoid it being eaten up by state and municipal bureaucracies.
Whatever portion of their time and energy was being eaten up by social commitments which may have been huge, but about which I was ignorant they seemed earnestly and unproblematically engaged with the academic experience.
Part of the extra money would be eaten up by rising health-care costs, but it would also allow SCHIP to be extended to families at up to 300% of the federal poverty level.
So what other explanations could we have for this fall in the MLR? or if you prefer, this rise in the portion of premiums that get eaten up by something other than medical care?
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