"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
  • Most of the changes, officials say, should not be extraordinarily costly, and they stress that the existing codes already ensure safe buildings.
  • Unification has proved extraordinarily costly.
  • Districts may apply to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for additional funding when they have an extraordinarily costly student.
  • The reason for this shift is simple: building a superbrand is an extraordinarily costly project, needing constant managing, tending and replenishing.
  • The space battle and landings had proved extraordinarily costly.
  • Marjorie McLoughlin, executive director of Cardinal McCloskey Services, a Catholic social services agency, called Connections "an overly ambitious and extraordinarily costly boondoggle."
  • They are extraordinarily costly subsidies - about $250 billion/year in forgone tax revenues.
  • In any event, this was an extraordinarily costly defeat for the Turks; in losses this was the worst single defeat they suffered in the entire war.
  • Aquariums have historically been extraordinarily costly enterprises and have had to supplement their incomes.
  • The Iraq war was a difficult, painful time, extraordinarily costly in terms of American lives and resources.
3. fairly costly = dość kosztowny fairly costly
costly + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
costly for • costly to • costly in

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