"costly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

costly adjetivo

costly + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
costly mistake • costly war • costly battle • costly program • costly process • ...
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 • ...
(2) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
1. extremely costly = niezwykle kosztowny extremely costly
2. exceedingly costly = niezmiernie kosztowny exceedingly costly
  • Furthermore, users will find it exceedingly costly to organize a very large number of opportunistic computing resources in a manner that can achieve reasonable high performance computing.
  • From its very introduction and inception the gas balloon, an expensive and fragile structure in itself, had proved at all times exceedingly costly in actual use.
  • The trouble is, these market gyrations have consequences: they are highly distressing to investors' psyches and exceedingly costly to their portfolios.
  • More important, the raid left open a threat that it could happen again, a threat that forced the Japanese to take defensive measures that proved exceedingly costly.
  • Construction and maintenance proved to be exceedingly costly, as the Bermuda Railway was built along a coastal route to minimize the amount of land acquisition needed for the right-of-way.
  • But Cartiff, the great jeweler, would be expected to wear very large and exceedingly costly gems.
  • Ahead lie some wrenching political battles, and nowhere is that more clear than in the sprawling, complicated, exceedingly sensitive and exceedingly costly Medicare program for the elderly.
  • With Uganda's resources already overburdened, it makes little sense to embrace an approach that is exceedingly costly from fiscal, human and environmental standpoints.
  • It is exceedingly costly and damaging to the European Union in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in the other countries I mentioned.
  • The plates were in boron carbide, which, though exceedingly costly due to its superior lightness, has remained the material of choice for aerospace applications.
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

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