Example sentences of "afford [verb] a new [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you I mean if you maybe could n't afford to buy a new raincoat , you would have a big black diamond cut off a piece of cloth |
| 2 | The plaintiffs could not afford to buy a new dredger and had to hire one . |
| 3 | But it ca n't afford to build a new footbridge with ramps at Leominster . |
| 4 | Germany can not afford to build a new airliner on its own , any more than Britain or France can . |
| 5 | The minnows , British Aerospace and Holland 's Fokker , could never again afford to make a new jet airliner on their own . |