not excessive
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"This money must be spent effectively, however, with robust safeguards and strong regulation to protect bill-payers, and ensure these upgrades deliver genuine value for money, offering fair but not excessive returns," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
It’s not excessive — it’s not like 80 and 90 — but some people still want to know what they’re going to get.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2024
Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, a nonpartisan organization in Michigan that studies employment policy, said that Virginia’s incentives to Amazon are not excessive in a national context.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2023
“We further find that the financial sanction to compel compliance was a proper exercise of the court’s discretionary power and was not excessive or otherwise improper,” the appellate panel said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023
His demands were fair, not excessive; but he always stipulated for so much per day, and so, under any circumstances, he did not do badly.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward
