"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This is a great inconvenience to parents who must now make new and possibly costly arrangements for child care.
- This slow and costly arrangement involved maintaining several miles of track North of Staveley plus two reversals.
- The overall indebtedness is now about $4.4 trillion, nearly twice what it was in 2000 - an increasingly costly arrangement for Americans and a potentially risky one for the nation's foreign creditors.
- In doing so they would pre-empt the imposition of more costly and cumbersome arrangements by different state legislators and the naval authorities, both of whom favoured retention of local times.
- Fewer bridal attendants means fewer costly floral arrangements.
- The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, for example, has already made alternative and less costly arrangements by striking a special deal with General Electric Mortgage Insurance.
- Other get-togethers treated with a fine-toothed comb include the Maslows' first effort to induct Vincent into their social circle, at a party with a costly floral arrangement that resembles a bouquet of toilet brushes.
- Health maintenance organizations and other arrangements less costly than fee-for-service medicine would be encouraged.
- Silence and freedom from jolting were secured by double doors and windows, costly and ingenious arrangements of springs and cushions, and a speed limited to eighteen miles an hour.
- The Brussels summit meeting settled only the so-called "stabilizers" for cereals and oilseeds - the most important crops of the community's costly arrangement known as the Common Agricultural Policy, which guarantees high prices to its farmers.
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