"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
(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
1. costly hurricane = kosztowny huragan costly hurricane
2. costly tornado = kosztowne tornado costly tornado
  • The second costliest tornado also occurred in St. Louis in September 1927.
  • Total dollar cost was put at $100 million making it, at the time, one of the most costly tornadoes in American history.
  • In terms of damage, it was the most costly tornado in American history to that date, with damage estimates between $250 million and $500 million.
  • Though only one person was killed, it was one of the most costly urban tornadoes on record in the U.S.
  • It was also the second costliest tornado in history at the time, but has been surpassed by several others non-normalized.
  • In terms of damage, it was the costliest tornado in American history to that date, with insurance costs estimated at up to $1.1 billion (in 1975).
  • Damage from the tornado amounted to $1.25 billion, making this one of the costliest tornadoes in U.S. history.
  • Besides its enormous size and unusual geographic location, at the time it was the nation's costliest tornado in raw dollars.
  • The total cost of damage has been put at £40 million, making it the most costly tornado in British history.
  • It also ranks as the costliest single tornado in U.S. history.
(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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