"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This was partly because 12" records were no longer being manufactured in Canada, leading to costly imports from the USA.
- The fabrics she used were not exactly ordinary scraps but English prints - costly imports in the 1820's.
- A modest recovery at the beginning of 2000 suffered a setback by a severe drought, and a subsequent bad harvest, requiring costly imports of grain and foodstuffs.
- One negative effect could be a higher inflation rate resulting from costlier imports.
- They predict that this will occur even as food shortages increase under the pressure of a debilitating drought and costly imports.
- Sanctions are making imports 24% more costly on average.
- Such costly imports would only be tolerated while the number of paddleboats made the generator and turbine factory uneconomical.
- A more valuable yuan would make imports cheaper in China and Chinese goods more costly in foreign markets, a combination that would tend to slow growth.
- Our living standards were "improved" by the availability of less costly imports, but at the expense of our economic strength today.
- Home industry was meant to keep money in Utah rather than have it spent for costly imports from thousands of miles away.
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