curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-numbers-with-a-coworker/684834b9469bb95e2f2e76e6.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
Can you tell me how much we've spent BLANK?
to date
This two-word phrase means "up until now" — from the beginning of the project until the present moment.
To date is commonly used in project and business reports to mean "so far" or "until now". For example:
To date, we've completed 80% of the project. — So far, they have finished most of the work.
In David's question, he's asking how much of the budget has been spent from the start of the project up to now.
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