Example sentences of "cost [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the mixture of live action and 2-D animation achieved surprising commercial success in the late 1980s ( $78m rentals , justifying a cost of over $50m ) , the combination of live action with 3-D animation seemed to reach something of a dead end with Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Claims with an anticipated cost of over £3000 should normally be passed to Loss Adjusters . |
| 3 | The council is providing the Games infrastructure at a cost of over £100 million , and has three leading members among the directors of GB Universiade . |
| 4 | At a total cost of over £25 million , KITEC is Johnson Matthey 's biggest single investment in Asia and it reflects our company 's commitment of major human and financial resources to the development of its business in Asia . |
| 5 | With an estimated total cost of over £300 million , these could include purifying and decontaminating the soil and re-equipping the plant with modern , low-polluting technology . |
| 6 | Individual noblemen had of course learned to their cost of both peasant fury and Russia 's military decline . |
| 7 | Other Expenses BMus students should be prepared for a cost of approximately £200 per annum per instrument for private tuition in the instrumental performance or singing studies which they are required to continue during their degree course . |
| 8 | The ISC Electric Home Food Dehydrator , above , will dry a huge variety of produce , from fruit and vegetables to meat , fish , herbs and spices , at a running cost of just 1.2p per hour . |
| 9 | It comes in sizes S , M , L and XL and at a cost of just £6.75 is an affordable way to thrust yourself into the very forefront of the 1990's fashion ! |
| 10 | So far from sending prices up , the abolition of licensing would immediately bring down the market price of existing houses and would in a short time begin to make an impression on the costs of new ones ; for the pressure of demand for new houses at a cost of nearly £2,000 apiece for a council-type is , in our opinion , very limited . |
| 11 | The most notable feature of the river frontage is the ‘ L ’ shaped tidal defence wall built in 1986 to prevent flooding from tidal surges on the Humber estuary , at a cost of nearly £3 million . |
| 12 | THIRD World governments are allocating half their total spending to armaments and debt servicing , at a cost of nearly $1 billion or $400 for every family , according to Unicef 's annual report , The State of the World 's Children , published yesterday . |
| 13 | But within 20 minutes of Annandale 's arrival , at a cost of nearly £500 to Hendry 's manager , Ian Doyle , he had successfully completed his task . |
| 14 | Chesney , also managing director of Meiko Ltd 's UK research and development operation in Bristol , says the placing aims to raise a ‘ significant ’ amount of funds to help finance the project to build a TeraFLOPS-peak massively parallel machine due for shipment next year , for a cost of around $50m . |
| 15 | It was agreed to purchase a new machine at the cost of around £185 plus V.A.T. It was considered advisable to engage a regular ‘ caller ’ who would be paid for his services . |
| 16 | Jacob Rothschild , Chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and former Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery , has personally financed the construction of the new Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem , at a cost of around £40 million . |
| 17 | The annual Tea Meeting on 12 January 1886 involved buying tea at 2/6 per pound ( about 13p ) , sugar at 2d per pound ( about 1p ) and 15 pounds of sweets at 5d per pound ( a total cost of around 32p ) . |
| 18 | Now , at a cost of around $7 million , he has , and the dilapidated eight-storey warehouse has become the Tribeca Film Centre , a tailor-made prestige base for De Niro 's company , and other East Coast film types : Brian De Palma has offices there , as do Miramax , the independent company that produced sex , lies and videotape . |
| 19 | But Philip stated that Hanna Instruments make the only available Phosphate test kit in the Uk , at a cost of around £20 . |
| 20 | The court , not expected to be in operation before September , would include 11 judges with a staff of 373 at a cost of around £20 million during its first year of operation . |
| 21 | The firm negotiated a 25-year lease on the new premises at a cost of around £200,000 a year ( including rates and service charge ) and in August 1990 , the newly merged Isle of Wight practice moved in . |
| 22 | Scottish company Reid Marinas are to design , build and install the marina , which will have ten smaller finger pontoons , at a cost of around £200,000 . |
| 23 | The Bureaux , which has more than 300 staff , mostly volunteers , is to computerise all its local offices at a cost of around £200,000 . |
| 24 | With a hardware cost of around £35,000 for a single workstation and a film recorder the majority of the potential users were quite happy to employ a bureau rather than do it all themselves . |
| 25 | Pure Wool Aran will retail at a cost of around £2.24 per 100 gram ball . |
| 26 | Computers like these are disappearing at a cost of around £40,000 a year . |
| 27 | Maintaining some 4,000 of its London members on strike at the cost of about £1,000 a week constituted a serious drain upon the NSFU 's slender resources . |
| 28 | The airlift will build a total of three kilometres of paths at an average cost of about £30 a metre , with the whole operation being paid for by the Countryside Commission . |
| 29 | In the absence of any turnaround in the fourth quarter , ICI can only just afford to pay the maintained 1992 dividend of 55.0p at a cost of about £400 million from ‘ clean ’ earnings per share of 48.8p . |
| 30 | There were around 70 polls taken during the campaign at a cost of about £10,000 apiece . |