"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

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 2

(1) prove, consider

Kolokacji: 2

(2) become, grow

Kolokacji: 2

1. become costly = stój się kosztowny become costly

It has become far too costly to America's global economic and strategic interests.
One reason is that honesty has become less costly since the end of the Cold War.
But the system it created has become too costly, he added.
Later on, the problem of keeping the grass trimmed around the trees was becoming costly.
American companies are sticking with these imported supplies even though they have become more costly in dollar terms.
By all the familiar measures, stocks had become costly.
Some important items, notably oil, have become more costly.
That would be very expensive; and indeed my own tastes had become costly.
Q. Is the current independent counsel system becoming too costly?
Far from over, the war had become very costly.

2. grow costly = stój się kosztowny grow 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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