"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Great War had just ended and the British public would not support another lengthy and costly expedition.
- A much larger and costlier expedition had been planned by the early 1590s, after Mendaña had spent years courting favour in Madrid and Lima.
- The costly expedition spurred rebellions of a Yunnan official, Song Longji, and the Gold-Tooths (ancestors of the Dai people) in 1301-03.
- Zhu Di's successors, the Hongxi Emperor and the Xuande Emperor, felt that the costly expeditions were harmful to the Chinese state.
- Largely as a result of the costly military expeditions against the Maya, the expenses of administering the new colony of British Honduras increased, at a time when the economy was severely depressed.
- The United States Government after the Civil War financed four costly, long-term expeditions into the West.
- Refusing to relinquish the colonies, he was faced with ever more costly and unpopular military expeditions.
- When not raising money for costly expeditions, the explorers in this book can sometimes be found talking to themselves.
- Although Sandino had been unable to secure any outside aid for his forces, the Great Depression made overseas military expeditions too costly for the U.S.
- This and the second campaign had been the costliest military expedition ever undertaken.
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