1.   But most people in Hanoi could not afford consumer luxuries, and even acquiring necessities was a full-time job.

2.   Can society afford the luxury of providing young children with the beginnings of a liberal education?

3.   Is this what women became if afforded the luxury of turned tables?

4.   The human species can no longer afford the luxury of such long double-takes or the leisurely changes of heart of entrenched scientists.

5.   When communications were inadequate and weak, it was argued, the country could ill afford the luxury of competing media.

6.   When I painted it was for myself, I could afford the luxury of spending two years on a painting.

7.   The country could not afford the luxury of an election.

8.   On my salary, I can afford few luxuries.

9.   And only the very cynical can afford the luxury of this much anti-luxury.

10.   And they should be able to afford a few luxuries.