The budget was ballooning its way to $13 million, and investors were staying away in droves.

He finds it extraordinary that the state's budget ballooned, to $12 billion from $6 billion, over the last eight years.

As a result, the budget ballooned to $330 million, not including $210 million in marketing costs.

The budget has ballooned from $18 million to $26 million.

The project's original budget of $280 million ballooned, eventually reaching more than $1 billion.

But in 2003, Revolution abandoned its strategy, and budgets ballooned while quality suffered.

New York State's budget for adult education, which includes English instruction, has ballooned from $14 million in 1984 to $54 million last year.

This year, there are 22,000 state-sentenced inmates, and the budget for jails has ballooned to $623 million.

The agency's annual budget has ballooned to $51 million.

Its budget eventually ballooned to $94 million, which made headlines at the time but no longer seems remarkable.