Example sentences of "[adv] expensive for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleaning up eastern Germany 's disastrous pollution could prove ruinously expensive for many businesses . |
| 2 | Labour , by signing up to the Social Chapter and introducing a minimum wage of £3.40 an hour , will make flexible jobs for women with families far too expensive for most employers to contemplate . |
| 3 | Anyway , interstellar travel would be amazingly expensive — perhaps too expensive for most civilizations to contemplate . |
| 4 | Pre-war underwear was available from high class shops but was far too expensive for most women . |
| 5 | At £166.75 this was far too expensive for most runners to even contemplate . |
| 6 | A large microcomputer system with an extensive range of hardware devices and large block of extra machine-code routines is very flexible and powerful , and would go a long way to meeting the requirements of the program designer , but in realistic terms such a system would be too expensive for most schools at present . |
| 7 | Psychologists speculate that much of the current dissatisfaction with the economy is caused by the presence of previously unattainable consumer products like VCRs , which are now available but still too expensive for most Poles . |