"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
1. costly war = kosztowna wojna costly war
2. costly battle = kosztowna bitwa costly battle
3. costly effort = kosztowny wysiłek costly effort
4. costly campaign = kosztowna kampania costly campaign
5. costly change = kosztowna zmiana costly change
6. costly fight = kosztowna walka costly fight
7. costly damage = kosztowne uszkodzenie costly damage
8. costly action = kosztowne działanie costly action
9. costly illness = kosztowna choroba costly illness
10. costly struggle = kosztowna walka costly struggle
  • One year ago, the Tour was involved in a costly struggle with Karsten Manufacturing Corporation over the issue of square grooved golf clubs.
  • After two months of fighting, the British captured all of High Wood, though not without another costly struggle.
  • These costly struggles both weakened the Redcoats as a unit and spurred the momentum of an anti-war movement in the British Isles.
  • John Adams predicted a long, costly struggle.
  • We've shared in a costly and heroic struggle against Nazism.
  • The final allied victory against Japan came only after a long and costly struggle.
  • The 2nd Infantry Brigade was soon involved in "the most costly struggle of the day".
  • For the last 20 years, the company has been engaged in a costly, frustrating and largely unsuccessful struggle to build a computer system that can handle these claims efficiently.
  • Mr. Donovan was acquitted of fraud charges after a lengthy, costly struggle.
  • Vietnam was a costly struggle of our nation.
11. costly conflict = kosztowny konflikt costly conflict
12. costly expedition = kosztowna wyprawa costly expedition
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(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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