Example sentences of "cost [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each paper cost £67 000 — seven times greater than US equivalents . |
| 2 | — that in Newham each such client cost £92 a week less in the community , and in Ipswich £108 less ( even with Home Support Project input ) than in an institution , assuming that two-thirds of the clients would have entered a hospital and one-third residential accommodation ( see Table 3.5 ) . |
| 3 | There were specialists in the USA , where the operation cost $4000 , and two good specialists in London , where the operation would cost just as much in pounds . |
| 4 | THE Institute 's attractions included a billiard room and a bathroom where a hot or cold shower cost 4d , and quickly proved so popular the building was overwhelmed . |
| 5 | Its Royal Horticultural Society Gardeners ' Encyclopaedia Of Gardening cost £2.5 million to create and had over 100 editors working on it . |
| 6 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 7 | The hospital cost £2.5 million — a million of which was donated by an American-based drug company . |
| 8 | Our version cost £60 ! |
| 9 | The Franks report cost £60 000 and stands a good chance of recovering some of that cost through sales of the report . |
| 10 | Her velvet helmet cost £60 . |
| 11 | Tickets for the full session cost £60 and are available from Kathy McLauchlan , Box Office , V&A , South Kensington , London . |
| 12 | It cost £60 — a lot of money — and the townspeople began to say ‘ Mr Shakespeare ’ , not ‘ Young Will the actor ’ or ‘ John Shakespeare 's boy ’ . |
| 13 | It cost £2.6 million in 1991 and £2.4 million in 1990 . |
| 14 | It cost £2.6 million in 1991 and £2.4 million in 1990 . |
| 15 | Environmental protection in the UK cost £14 billion in 1991 , or about 2.5 per cent of the country 's GNP , according to a report by the Department of the Environment , with about one third of the total being paid by the government and the rest by industry and consumers . |
| 16 | An average Bacon painting at that time cost £1,000 , a price Fischer thought too high to improve on , but Kasmin felt was too cheap . |
| 17 | ‘ My Favourite Dress ’ cost £1,000 to make . |
| 18 | The Tabernacle cost £31,383 , over a million pounds today . |
| 19 | It was a 1925 Wolseley , and it cost £15 . |
| 20 | Our Shenstone sources say the bike cost £8,000 to produce . |
| 21 | Straight single fares with sleeper and meals from London to Venice or Vienna cost £850 ; to Budapest , £950 ; to Paris by day , £390 . |
| 22 | My bowl of fettucine Alfredo at the Cheescake Factory in Marina del Ray cost $8.95 ( £5 ) and was enough for three . |
| 23 | So , for example , if an item cost £1 before VAT . |
| 24 | The Serpell report cost £550 000 . |
| 25 | A joint ticket for bus and rail cost £8.50 . |
| 26 | The royal household cost £56,000 in 1550/51 , compared with only £25,000 in 1538 /39 ; pensions and annuities ate up £20,000 ; and permanent garrisons , the navy , and the ordnance absorbed £80,000 . |
| 27 | Sensation rang up the curtain on July when Sir Derek Rayner revealed that government-reared rats for research cost £28 each when the going price for a rat in civvy street was £2 . |
| 28 | At the time the disc cost £2.5s . |
| 29 | KEEPING hippies away from the summer solstice at Stonehenge this year cost £247,000 , Wiltshire police revealed yesterday . |
| 30 | In 1866 an Atlantic telegram cost £20 or $100 . |