Example sentences of "at a cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each discovery is bought at a cost , he wrote . |
| 2 | Unlike building model aeroplanes or playing computer games , you can consume the finished product , which works out at a cost of 10p a pint . |
| 3 | ‘ At a cost . ’ |
| 4 | The key recommendation is that a workforce should be recruited and trained to bring five million energy-inefficient homes to current building standards at a cost of £2–3,000 each or a total of £40–45 billion . |
| 5 | The fourteen miles of new mainline railway on the East Coast main line , bypassing Selby at a cost of £60 million , resulted from threat of coalmining subsidence under the old formation . |
| 6 | But some positive things happened in 1982 like the opening of Milton Keynes Central at a cost of £4.5million ; Watton-at-Stone between Stevenage and Hertford North ; and of Watford Stadium on the Watford Junction-Croxley Green branch on 4 December . |
| 7 | Passengers and passers-by alike found its wide , illuminated photographs of mouth-watering meals irresistible — though at a cost ( in 1980 ) of nearly £½million , Casey Jones was obviously going to pay for himself only at the busiest venues . |
| 8 | The line to Bathgate , reopened to passengers on 24 March 1986 ( including two new stations at Uphall and Livingston ) at a cost of £1.5million shared by six public bodies expected to see a top figure of 400,000 passengers annually . |
| 9 | This figure was rapidly exceeded and by 1989 was carrying one million passengers annually , necessitating lengthening platforms at several stations along its route at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 10 | Built over 10 years at a cost of £6bn , the state-of-the-art construction is carrying less than half of the projected amount of traffic . |
| 11 | He said this will be followed by a wafer fabrication plant on the same site at a cost of at least I £150m and finally a finishing and test centre . |
| 12 | Based on the Rayner Review , by Sir Derek ( now Lord ) Rayner , chairman of Marks and Spencer , the White Paper signalled a 25 per cent cut in the GSS and the Central Statistical Office ( CSO ) which then employed 540 professional statisticians and about 8,500 other staff at a cost of £100m . |
| 13 | For five years — and at a cost of at least £150,000 — the council has tried unsuccessfully to reach agreement with Mervyn Sweet , of Chapel Farm , to protect the meadows . |
| 14 | On this day : the Order of the Bath was constituted , 1399 ; Pope Leo X conferred the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ on Henry VIII , 1521 ; Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia , 1669 ; the Chicago Fire ended , having almost completely destroyed the city at a cost of $196m , 1871 ; the Anglo-Boer War started , 1899 ; Czechoslovakia became an independent republic , 1918 ; inflation overtook German currency , with the mark dropping to an exchange rate of 10,000m to the pound , 1923 ; fighting broke out in China between the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Tse-tung , 1945 ; Pope John XXIII opened the second Vatican Ecumenical Council , 1963 . |
| 15 | Some hotshot parents cheat by calling in at the food store and ordering a gourmet prawn salad for 20 — at a cost of $60 . |
| 16 | The change in price has been dramatic — in 1986 it was estimated that it would be impossible to distribute imported whisky free of charge at a cost of less than Y 2,600 a bottle . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1986 , 40 per cent of the nearly 9 million tons of cereals imported by Africa was financed under food aid projects , at a cost to donors of approximately $0.5 billion . |
| 19 | Wyre anglers , including members of the committee , voted at their annual meeting last March to purchase an electric winch at a cost of £285 . |
| 20 | The building was erected by builder George Myers at a cost of £4,800 to a design by architects Isaac Clarke and James Humphrys . |
| 21 | Universal was the worst case , making 13 British pictures at a cost of $30 million , not one of which was a substantial hit . |
| 22 | The jammers , at a cost of $3.5 million per plane , are designed to identify radars , single out the most dangerous ones and then transmit electronic signals to deceive or interfere with the radars of the hostile air defence weapons . |
| 23 | Camden and Islington councils , meanwhile , have given the Met a free copy of LAFIS — a computer programme which they developed at a cost of £15 million , and sold to other authorities for about £2 million a throw . |
| 24 | The company says the plant , modernised at a cost of £100 million ten years ago , can not meet today 's standards . |
| 25 | The worst example is the A465 Taf Fawr bridge in south Wales , replaced after 18 years at a cost of £3 million . |
| 26 | On Saturday the trade union paper Trud revealed that Mr Zhivkov 's grandson began a five-year study course in Switzerland last October at a cost to the state of over £1,000 a month . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | That building was valued by a private firm — well , it 's that sort of Government — at a cost of £40,000 . |
| 30 | Dublin Castle , the venue for the main event , the European Council of Ministers meeting on June 25 and 26 , has been refurbished at a cost of £22 million and equipped with a new conference centre . |