Example sentences of "could cost [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a decision that could cost £500,000 in lost gate receipts . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that retrospective appeals from Scottish landowners over previously designated SSSIs — there are currently 1300 — could cost SNH £1.5m a year , 7.5% of their budget . |
| 3 | In April 1990 the US Congressional Budget Office published a report which claimed that adoption of statehood could cost Puerto Rico 100,000 jobs and 73 per cent of its investment from US companies by the end of the decade , through the loss of Puerto Rico 's generous tax incentives under Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code . |
| 4 | Next year it could cost £2 extra a week — £100 per head — to pay for people who have refused to pay their poll tax ? |
| 5 | Those four little letters could cost Hardee more than the walkouts he has grown used to . |
| 6 | CONSUMER CELLPHONE systems could cost motorists more than comparable business mobile phones . |
| 7 | The base was run in the manner expected from Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , with no concessions to careless habits or moments of inattention which could cost lives on a beach . |
| 8 | There will be delays in the arrival of fire engines and ambulances — which could cost lives . ’ |
| 9 | Keane 's move could cost Blackburn £5 million which will break the British transfer record of £3.6 million that Rovers boss Kenny Dalglish paid Southampton for Alan Shearer . |
| 10 | Lawyers for Virgin and BA were working into the night , going over a settlement which could cost BA up to £10 million . |
| 11 | Lawyers for Virgin and BA were working into the night , going over the small print of an agreement which could cost BA up to £10 million . |
| 12 | BG has claimed that the Ofgas plan could cost £3 billion over ten years and cause widespread disruption to the business during the transition period . |
| 13 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 14 | The dumps could cost £100 million to build at today 's prices . |
| 15 | A new damp-proof course could cost £1,000 or more ( including hacking off and replacing plaster ) ; complete woodworm treatment could cost anything from £500 . |
| 16 | IMPROVING safety standards at workplaces in Darlington could cost £60m . |
| 17 | Ironically , if — as is not unlikely — Jason Leonard and Nick Popplewell go as the loose-heads , it is Wright who could cost Probyn his seat on that Lions ' plane . |
| 18 | The Treasury estimates that abolition of the pensioners ' earnings rule could cost £565m by 1991 , to be met out of reserves . |
| 19 | A bottle of perfume , Helen saw , could cost £110 . |
| 20 | Over the coming weeks the government will make up its mind on a programme of computing research that could cost £350 million . |
| 21 | Levy 's study concluded that including 5 per cent biofuel in all French fuel could cost £800 million a year , while reducing production of greenhouse gases by less than 1 per cent . |
| 22 | A quarter of waste dumps in England have been closed by companies in attempt to sidestep new pollution control rules , leaving a toxic legacy which could cost councils millions of pounds to clean up . |
| 23 | Such closures could cost mine companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production . |
| 24 | Just getting the mine back into working order could cost £1m or even £2m . |
| 25 | With VAT , this book could cost £20.95 , a level at which 10 per cent of sales would probably be lost . |