"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
  • Such arrangements are not uncommon in Germany and are intended to avoid costly trials.
  • In time, after costly trial and error, the new defense will surely leapfrog the old offense, as it always does.
  • "And the district attorney's office realized this would be a very costly trial."
  • A lengthy and costly trial followed, in which the parties passionately stated their cases.
  • The settlement will allow the two sides to avoid a costly trial that had been expected later this year.
  • At the same time they have mounted costly trials to prove the value of such advice.
  • The trial was one of the most costly, complicated and longest trials in British Columbia.
  • The long, costly criminal trial ended with a "not guilty" verdict on October 3, 1995.
  • Nor was it his responsibility alone that the Administration stumbled its way to a policy in Somalia by costly trial and error.
  • Prosecutors, however, say the new policy is a success, saving the court costly trials that have taken a year or more on average.
2. costly experiment = kosztowny eksperyment 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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