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• The trains were shut down for two-and-a-half months for repairs that went $3 million over budget.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
• The Pettit is already near or over budget for electric and gas and well over costs of a year ago.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
• For starters, the project is already wildly over budget.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Bedrock also is over budget on the project — and must cover most of those overruns.
  — Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2023
• In what ways? There was a tremendous battle over budget and what the cast was to be paid in the final season of Dear White People.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• With more stage room to work with than their previous, 2022 tour, the ideas for the stage design are next level… and just a tad bit over budget.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
• The biggest problem with car loans is that the spike in prices [during the pandemic] caused people to get in over budget.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022
• Risks were taken on photo shoots; shows ran over budget.
  — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2022
• Whoosh was more than $1 billion over budget, and four years late, on its first $7.2 billion segment.
  — Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2024
• And there’s $5 million for the World Games, a thing which already happened in Birmingham but ran over budget.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 29 Mar. 2023
• That said, Design Within Reach can lead you to go over budget quickly, since many of the pieces are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
  — Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• That said, Design Within Reach can lead you to go over budget quickly, since many of the pieces are priced in the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
  — Deanna Pai, Peoplemag, 1 May 2023
• The project finished $187 million over budget and two years behind schedule.
  — Camille Squires, Quartz, 5 Jan. 2022
• The audit found the food department was hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Still, the Vogtle expansion has been plagued by delayed and is billions over budget.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 17 Aug. 2023
• The four-stop, subterranean light-rail line was three years behind schedule and $335 million over budget.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
• The Elizabeth Line is four years late, wildly over budget, and beautiful as hell.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• That follows years of delays and costs running $1 billion over budget.
  — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2024
• Roar went millions over budget, forcing Hedren and Marshall to pay for much of the production from their own pockets, and the film took 11 years to complete.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 23 May 2023
• Proposals for the extension came in roughly 35% over budget, The Star has learned, which set off a scramble over the summer to find more money and look for ways to cut costs.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
• Australian officials said 28 projects are delayed—some by three or four years—and 18 are over budget, with cost overruns in the billions of dollars.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 10 Oct. 2022
• But the entire schedule is subject to change, as NASA works out kinks in rocket, which is more than $1 billion over budget and years behind schedule.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• None of this is to suggest the producers of these shows were irresponsible in their spending or went way over budget.
  — Vulture, 1 Feb. 2024
• The pipeline is six years behind schedule, about half a billion dollars over budget, and, despite promises that it would be done by the end of last year, delayed once again.
  — Katie Myers, WIRED, 20 Jan. 2024
• Over the course of its development, the telescope ran billions of dollars over budget and was finished more than a decade behind schedule.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2021
• But criticism has come quickly for the proposals over budget concerns since most loans would not be repaid in full.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 18 Jan. 2023
• Many tasks do not need to be tightly sequenced, but if critical path tasks don’t happen on schedule, the project is delayed and will often go over budget.
  — Steve Banker, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
• Southern recently completed the first new plant in decades, but the project was years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2024
• No large reactors are planned, and the last few projects of that sort were either canceled or ran horrifically over budget.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2023
• Southern Company, one of the largest utilities in the U.S., completed the first new nuclear plant in decades last year, though the project finished behind schedule and over budget.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024