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"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 6
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) mistake, error, interception, fumble, trip, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(2) war, battle, effort, campaign, change, ...
Kolokacji: 12
(3) program, system, burden, plan, arrangement
Kolokacji: 5
(4) process, procedure, operation, regulation, technology, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(5) litigation, lawsuit, mandate, divorce, suit, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(6) failure, victory, defeat, flop, setback
Kolokacji: 5
(7) project, undertaking, endeavor, enterprise, task, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(8) alternative, option, decision
Kolokacji: 3
(9) way, proposition, approach, luxury, proposal
Kolokacji: 5
(10) disaster, problem, distraction
Kolokacji: 3
(11) item, one, ingredient, piece, component
Kolokacji: 5
(12) repair, service, care, renovation, cleanup, ...
Kolokacji: 8
(13) delay, disruption
Kolokacji: 2
(14) treatment, drug, intervention
Kolokacji: 3
(15) turnover, investment, venture, production, business, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(16) penalty, incentive, benefit
Kolokacji: 3
(17) gift, acquisition, subsidy
Kolokacji: 3
(18) equipment, material, fabric, robe, duplication
Kolokacji: 5
(19) measure, step, weapon
Kolokacji: 3
(20) hurricane, tornado
Kolokacji: 2
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
1. costly strike = kosztowny strajk costly strike
2. costly storm = kosztowna burza costly storm
  • Insurance experts said that damage could exceed $9 billion, which would make it one of the costliest storms on record.
  • Officials say the economic toll of what may be the nation's costliest storm could take a decade to overcome.
  • But some lessons of the nation's most costly storm ever are already becoming clear.
  • It was the costliest storm in Texas history at the time, though other hurricanes since then have caused more destruction.
  • Total damage was $160 million, making Kathleen one of the costliest tropical storms in state history.
  • It was the costliest storm of the season.
  • The hurricane season lasts another seven weeks, until Nov. 30, but no one is expecting any costly storms.
  • He added: "When it is all totaled up, this will be the costliest storm to have hit our region."
  • Damage totaled $700 million, which was one of the five costliest storms on Guam.
  • With $26 billion in damage, it became the costliest storm in history at that time.
3. costly assault = kosztowna napaść costly assault
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
(24) affair, race
Kolokacji: 2
(25) expansion, model, form, version
Kolokacji: 4
(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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