(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.

即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%

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because the government's expenditures are only going to keep the economy afloat for so long.

因为政府的开支就是要保持经济的长期运转。

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The Kremlin leader says expenditures will exceed revenues for the first time in ten years, creating a budget deficit of no less than seven percent of the country's gross domestic product.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

The amount that we're spending for the year ending June 30,2008 is $843 million -that represents 37% of revenues--and we're projecting expenditures for the following year of $1.15 billion.

截至20008年6月30日,我们的年支出是8亿4千3百万美元,占了收入的37%,我们明年的支出预算是11亿5千万

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In 2007,expenditures on health care totaled about one-sixth of the entire U.S.economy, and even top congressional leaders acknowledge that attempting to rein in health-care costs while at the same time expanding health-insurance coverage is a daunting task.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31