Example sentences of "[modal v] cost [adv] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacement could cost about £5 million . |
| 2 | To become a JANET site in our own right would cost approximately £10,000 initial registration fee , but this would give us complete control over the security and budget of the communication system , for the free exchange of non-commercial information between research institutions , which is not currently possible . |
| 3 | UNEP and others have estimated that it would cost approximately $4,500 million a year over the next 20 years to slow and stop desertification , and to begin to reclaim the land that we have already lost . |
| 4 | To take the grid company back into public ownership would cost about £2 billion . |
| 5 | That would cost about $3 billion more . |
| 6 | At $30,000 a year , that would cost about $15 million annually . |
| 7 | Ten stations around the world would cost about $60 million to build and $20 million per year to run . |
| 8 | Three satellites , with optical , infra-red and radar facilities , would cost around $200 million . |
| 9 | Estimates that creating the Fsx would cost only ¥165 billion ( at 1985 prices ) were good for nothing more than selling the project to parliament which had to vote the money . |
| 10 | The Government reckons it will cost about £4 million to implement , 75 per cent of which it is hoped will be clawed back from industry . |
| 11 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 12 | RESTORING fire-damaged Windsor Castle will cost about £30 million to £40 million , the National Heritage Secretary , Peter Brooke , disclosed yesterday . |
| 13 | That will cost about £37 million in bricks and mortar and another £10 million for equipment . |
| 14 | Books for the system , which will cost around £8 each , have conventional pictures and text alongside printed bar codes . |
| 15 | The film will cost around £10 million to make . |
| 16 | The project , which will involve digging of two sloping tunnels , excavating disposal chambers deep in the basement rock and constructing a rack-and-pinion railway , will cost around £1.25 billion . |
| 17 | Its total of 26 projects will cost around $1.4 million . |
| 18 | The new machines will cost only £50 more than current single-speed VHS models and in the long-play mode give up to eight hours ' playing time , instead of the normal maximum of four hours . |
| 19 | For example , a new large passenger aircraft can cost over $3 billion , requiring government assistance , either directly or indirectly . |