"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
1. costly delay = kosztowne opóźnienie costly delay
  • But this has led to costly delays in landings at airports.
  • How costly the delay could prove, Moe was to learn, to his great regret.
  • Time and again we have been forced to make costly delays.
  • I hope you understand how costly such delays can be.
  • Another is that trying to build the plant while it was still under design caused costly delays.
  • The agency warned that having two companies would result in a costly delay.
  • The contrast to the experience of the mid-1980's, particularly to 1985, when computer problems caused extensive and costly delays, is especially sharp.
  • These changes brought costly delays to an already beleaguered product line.
  • The two were starting upward, but only after a costly delay.
  • "We must guarantee that no more time is wasted on costly delays, Colonel."
2. costly disruption = kosztowne zakłócenie costly disruption
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
(26) bureaucracy, machine
Kolokacji: 2
(27) dispute, jewel, gem
Kolokacji: 3
(28) import, consequence
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + costly
Kolokacji: 4
prove costly • become costly • grow costly • consider costly
adverbio + costly
Kolokacji: 19
most costly • extremely costly • potentially costly • far more costly • increasingly costly • ...
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

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