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  • Examples of cost
    1. Rising interest rates have kited the cost of housing. ‎
    2. His chronic lateness will cost him a promotion if not his job.
    3. Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
    4. But Dr. Okun said it would cost no more to switch patients to the old Parkinson’s standby drug, L-dopa or levodopa, which has side effects of its own, but has never been known to damage heart valves.
    5. But don’t think that working for a megacompany comes at the cost of Capone’s imagination: “They always let me be experimental.”
    6. His comment was a misstep that could cost him.
    7. This coat cost me 50 nicker.
    8. If the newer version performs as well for half the cost, the decision is a no-brainer.
    9. The dilemma is how to cost effectively build these one of a kinds yet provide high performance and reliability
    10. Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.
  • Examples of costs
    1. Access to finance is deeper and wider under better institutions (more transparency, better property rights) in more developed financial markets, and in an environment less distorted by taxes, unnecessary regulations, and other avoidable costs.
    2. Costs have grown higher this year again.
    3. Hold my coat for me.  The general ordered the colonel to hold his position at all costs. ‎
    4. It's hard to stay in business with the recent jack-up in fuel costs.
    5. Loose talk costs lives.
    6. nonoperating costs
    7. nonpersonnel costs
    8. Costs what they are, even Neil Simon premiered a play off-Broadway.
  • Examples of costed
    1. This was a badly costed project.
    2. We costed the project at $1,000,000.
    3. We've costed the project at £1,000,000.
  • Examples of costing
    1. She's costing us a lot in incidentals.
    2. For $6.99 a month, the other would enable listeners to choose 50 of the nonpremium channels, with each additional channel costing 25 cents.
    3. The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.
    4. A tin of tomatoes weighing 250 g and costing $2.50 is more expensive, pound-for-pound, than one weighing 500 g and costing $4 (as the former costs $1.00 per 100 g and the latter $0.80 per 100 g).
    5. During August clothes costing less than $75 are untaxed, to try to help the poor by clothes and the merchants make money.
    6. How often is this happening? I don't think anyone knows. It must be costing a motza and that's a real concern.

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  1. en cost
  2. en posts
  3. fr posts
  4. en hosts
  5. en coats
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