Example sentences of "it cost [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stated that it cost taxpayers 3bn to 4bn per annum in overrun defence contracts . |
| 2 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 3 | As the tax burden edged up , so did the gap widen between the sum that a pay settlement gave workers and what it cost employers . |
| 4 | It cost pounds in 1946 , but when I at last got it , I could write underwater . |
| 5 | It costs companies considerable sums of money to send employees abroad to work . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've heard it costs pounds to stay in hotels in places like that . ’ |
| 7 | Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts . |
| 8 | Just as it costs peanuts to get oil out of a hole in the ground , it costs peanuts to put rubbish into one — so long as the oil , or the space , lasts . |
| 9 | Sugar was displayed at the world market price of 33p a kilo and at the 68p it costs Britons because of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 10 | It costs jobs , as well as being more expensive in the long run . |