"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
(21) strike, assault, storm
Kolokacji: 3
(22) solution, method
Kolokacji: 2
(23) trial, experiment
Kolokacji: 2
1. costly trial = kosztowna rozprawa costly trial
2. costly experiment = kosztowny eksperyment costly experiment
  • The test was the most costly and complex experiment yet for the "Star Wars" program.
  • The Russian nation made one costly experiment.
  • A lot of damned fools would try a lot of very costly experiments.
  • So the media companies on the Web are nearly all struggling to find a formula for transforming costly experiments into money-making businesses.
  • An unmanned Delta rocket fired a three-ton military satellite into space as part of the most costly experiment yet in the antimissile program.
  • A wrong and costly experiment, I am afraid.
  • To lick the problem, he advises what might be a long, painful and costly experiment.
  • The White House has relegated its costly experiments in social engineering to Iraq.
  • When based on accurate mental models, thought experiments can replace more costly (or even deadly) physical experiments - a development evolution has favored.
  • This ensures that you do not lose observations made during a costly experiment.
(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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