allowance
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But a cut to the cash ISA allowance from £20,000 a year to £12,000, announced last year by Healey's predecessor Rachel Reeves, will be axed.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
If the personal allowance had risen with inflation over the last five years, you would now be able to take home the first £16,070 of your pay without paying any income tax.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
This would take the payment above the £12,570 personal tax allowance and therefore be liable for income tax if no changes are made.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
She was considering moving into an apartment for her sophomore year, and I had to work through complications about leases, providing an allowance and related expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
With an allowance of fifteen dollars a month for mowing the lawn every week.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Welsh ministers had called for changes to their borrowing rules and assurances that child poverty payments it wants to introduce would leave recipients' tax and benefits allowances unaffected.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Lecornu has said the draft law, first presented before the protests, would allow these sums to be "taken from family allowances and housing benefits, while ensuring a minimum income is preserved".
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Among Russell 3000 companies, the number of businesses reporting the same security allowances similarly rose, in this case from 7% in 2025 to 11%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
We ordered Cokes and hamburgers for as long as our allowances held out.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
Onct a week dey would come and dey allowanced 'em out pervisions.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Accordingly I allowanced my men two pounds of beads monthly, and they went to distant villages and purchased their own provisions independently of me.
From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker
I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.
From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by George Nugent-Bankes
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.
From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse
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Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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