My father doesn't believe in home ownership and can't afford a change of opinion.

Paul said their father could afford only two sticks at a time.

My father could only afford toy soldiers for me when I was a boy.

Mother and father could afford live companions for the older five.

His father and elders could not afford to be away for such a long time.

He did well in school, but his father could not afford to send him to college.

Since his father could no longer afford to support him, the young man was forced to drop out of engineering school and work, they said.

He remembered when his father couldn't afford to buy him new shoes.

Thus, his father could afford to give them all the comforts of life.

"You once told me that your father couldn't afford one."