Example sentences of "it cost [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the massive invasion of France in 1544 proved to be more than twice as expensive as the government had estimated : it cost nearly £650,000 instead of the predicted £250,000 . |
| 2 | It cost nearly £80 to erect the furnace at Worth in 1547 — in the early days at least there was plenty of free money to be put into the new ventures . |
| 3 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 4 | It cost around $900. +1 510 226–1075 |
| 5 | It cost around £7 , the most expensive fast food he 'd ever had . |
| 6 | Twenty years ago it cost only 3p to post a first-class letter , whereas today it costs 24p — an increase of 800 per cent . |
| 7 | When I was there last year it cost only £12 : the rate had gone down due to the Gulf war and the fear of AIDS . |
| 8 | The carrycot , with buggy combined , has been really good value ; it cost about £120 but I 've had so much use out of it already . |
| 9 | Mr Murray said it cost about £100,000 a year for each intensive care bed so it was important not to over-budget for beds which would not be fully used . |
| 10 | In 1978 it cost about $2.50 to have a ton of hazardous waste dropped in a safe hole in the ground ; in 1987 the cost ranged from $200 upwards . |
| 11 | ‘ About two years ago I worked out that it cost about £1,000 a week to keep a woman in prison . |
| 12 | It costs approximately £1.95 per gallon , unleaded £1.85 . |
| 13 | It costs approximately £45 from John Lewis stores , Harrods and Selfridges in London ; or , for local stockists , telephone Lubkowski Saunders on 0932 789721 . |
| 14 | One in five of the ‘ 303 Times Top 1000 companies ’ interviewed believed that it costs less than £4000 per person , one in three estimated costs in the range of £4000 to £6000 and a further one in three thought it costs over £6000 per employee . |
| 15 | In Africa , for example , it costs just 20p — the price of a cup of tea — to immunise a child against six killer diseases . |
| 16 | And it is not priced in the luxury category — it costs just £249 plus VAT to install Cozydry in any bathroom . |
| 17 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 18 | It costs about £37,000 |
| 19 | It costs about £187 to take a fishing boat through the canal — one way . |
| 20 | Some TV 's also had teletext ; this may be available as an optional extra ( it costs about £50 ) . |
| 21 | Available from Strand conservatories , it costs about £4,750 |
| 22 | It costs about £30 from selected branches of Top Shop and Coppernob . |
| 23 | Shown here with a pretty floral cushion called Etna , it costs about £155 . |
| 24 | It costs about £2,000 to care for someone between referral to ACET and their death . |
| 25 | It costs about 75p to post a tape . |
| 26 | It costs about £4.27 from DIY stores . |
| 27 | By contrast it costs about $600,000 to keep someone in prison for life if they live for another 40 years . |
| 28 | It costs about £100 a week to keep a mentally handicapped adult in care and over £200 a week to look after a mentally handicapped child . |
| 29 | It costs about £2.40 from DIY stores . |
| 30 | ‘ It costs about £1.86 an hour in the afternoon , ’ says Johnstone , engaged in a link-up between Kirkwall , navigation teacher Sean Milligan in Stromness and the pupils of Papa Westray primary school . |