Example sentences of "cost [adv] to [n mass] " in BNC.
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1 | The Imperial Air Cruising Company said that due to ‘ the troubles in the Soviet Union and China ’ , the holidays — which cost up to £7,000 each - would start next year . |
2 | Handmade dolls with china faces and elegant costumes cost up to £90 . |
3 | Long-distance calls normally cost up to 79p for 10 minutes . |
4 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
5 | It can save a large office or factory thousands of pounds in wiring costs : lights and heaters no longer need individually-wired switches costing up to £50 each . |
6 | Interest rate was never judged the most important factor ( nor was total cost of credit ) with things costing up to £100 , and with these even adding in people 's second and third choice factors showed that interest rates only had some importance for about 12 per cent of shoppers . |
7 | Queen Margaret College yesterday announced plans for a major expansion on to a new campus , costing up to £10 million and aimed at carrying the former domestic science school to the size required for university status . |
8 | The company has opened three holiday camps for four-day breaks costing up to £225 a head . |
9 | If British consumers fail to buy the new models , European Community-devised satellite broadcasting norms could mean millions of viewers finding themselves watching a distorted picture , or being forced to buy a decoder costing up to £200 . |
10 | Accident prevention schemes are also planned and regional councils will be invited to suggest schemes costing up to £1m . |
11 | It costs up to £18,000 a year to educate one child , although the results are there for all to see . |
12 | It usually costs up to £5 to join , plus the price of a share , say £1 . |
13 | The first of this new generation of ‘ warm hatches ’ is Citroen 's ZX Furio , which costs up to £900 less to insure than some rivals . |
14 | And it costs up to $8,000 every month . ’ |
15 | A kilo of this miraculous stuff costs up to $150,000 . |
16 | But the monomode fibre that British Telecom favours for its trunk lines costs up to £700 per kilometre . |
17 | As another extra , Lovell will pay legal fees and survey costs up to £1,500 . |
18 | Recently it broke down and he has been told that it could cost up to £400 to get him mobile again . |
19 | The Children 's Society denounced the proposals , which could cost up to £75 million , as a ‘ knee jerk reaction ’ given figures suggesting the number of persistent young offenders could be as low as 100 . |
20 | The company warns that it can cost up to £75 a day to hire a replacement car and if your own vehicle has to be transported home the bill is likely to be about £400 . |
21 | An accident reconstruction can cost up to £1,000 . |
22 | Money from the National Lottery and from private and public donations , will be needed to finance the building , which may cost up to £100 million . |
23 | The 6ft 4in goalscorer , who has 16 caps , could cost up to £500,000 . |
24 | The teleprocessor also doubles as a 14.4Kbps V32bis modem , a device which can cost up to £900 . |
25 | BAA , owner of Heathrow , London , the world 's busiest international airport , said yesterday it was seeking planning permission to build a fifth passenger terminal which would cost up to £900 million . |
26 | A new system will cost up to £2,500 to install ; and updating an old one , from £300 ( £1,000 plus if you replace the boiler as well ) . |
27 | They can cost up to £2,000 each . |
28 | Glaxo says it spends more than £30,000 on the scheme , while a 50-place nursery could cost up to £250,000 to build and as much as £200,000 a year to run . |
29 | The operation could cost up to £250,000 . |
30 | The 1994 interest relief will be reduced from the 25pc band to the 20pc and could cost up to £125 per annum for a person with a mortgage over £30,000 . |