Example sentences of "cost of [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in a major exercise , Rank Xerox switched a number of specialised staff to operating as teleworking freelance consultants ( involving setup costs of just £1,300 per head and achieving savings in office expenses of £17,500 per worker in the first year of operation ) , sending instructions by electronic mail was not enough : a ‘ gossip line ’ was introduced so that they could keep up on office news . |
| 2 | The results also incprorate redundancy , severence and reorganisation costs of nearly £5.4m . |
| 3 | Mr Whittingham added that a 10,000 sq ft building should sell for around £360,000 , equating to his development costs of nearly £36 per sq ft . |
| 4 | While we do not yet know what cues the animals might use , we can exploit the likelihood that , when other qualities such as physical well-being are equal , an optimal choice of mate is likely to be one that minimizes the costs of both inbreeding and outbreeding ( Bateson , 1980 , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | There are , in practice , ways of cutting costs — up to a point — but it is difficult to produce a commercial you can be proud of for under around £60000 — £70000 in the UK today ( 1992 ) , and costs of over £150000 are common . |
| 6 | Mr Conable therefore hands over a 6,000-strong Bank with annual staff costs of over $900m , $150,000 a head , bloated by perks such as first-class air travel . |
| 7 | By 1986 total savings were estimated at 950m against scrutiny costs of only 5m ( Public Accounts Committee , 1985–6 , para. 15 ) . |
| 8 | They found that , after allowing for transactions costs of about 1% , the no-arbitrage condition for intracommodity spreads was met . |
| 9 | We had somewhere to find annual running costs of about £100,000 a year out of the existing budget . |
| 10 | The benefit of all this is estimated to be a saving on annual costs of about $4,000m beginning in 1993 — but all the cost-cutting that the company already has under its belt has done no more than enable it to stand still , which is why several analysts question whether even the latest cuts will prove sufficient . |
| 11 | As the cartridge is £17 , this gives a costs of about 8p per page . |
| 12 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 13 | Apart from the pension gain , more than half of which was taken in the form of lower interest charges , spinning rationalisation costs of almost £10million were treated as an extraordinary levy . |
| 14 | Apart from the pension gain , more than half of which was taken in the form of lower interest charges , spinning rationalisation costs of almost £10million were treated as an extraordinary levy . |
| 15 | That was enough for magistrates in the city who imposed fines and costs of almost £900 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Claims with an anticipated cost of over £3000 should normally be passed to Loss Adjusters . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Individual noblemen had of course learned to their cost of both peasant fury and Russia 's military decline . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |