Example sentences of "it cost [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On our first day of trading we took £8.36 , which delighted us , but a local health nut had eaten the geraniums and it cost £6 to replace them . |
| 2 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 3 | ‘ The cot was a major item ; it cost £120 and I bought a spring mattress which cost £20 . |
| 4 | To decorate a dish of smoked salmon , so beautiful in itself , with lettuce leaves , or to strew it with tufts of cress , is not to make that salmon which has cost 38s. a pound look as if it cost £3 , but to belittle it so that you begin to feel it is some bargain basement left-over which needs to be disguised . |
| 5 | It cost £2.6 million in 1991 and £2.4 million in 1990 . |
| 6 | It cost £2.6 million in 1991 and £2.4 million in 1990 . |
| 7 | Phone in advance to reserve your place — it cost £10 per day . |
| 8 | It cost £10 a go , but in terms of the cost of a double-page spread , say , it was very cost effective . ’ |
| 9 | It cost £60 — a lot of money — and the townspeople began to say ‘ Mr Shakespeare ’ , not ‘ Young Will the actor ’ or ‘ John Shakespeare 's boy ’ . |
| 10 | Made of ivory and applewood with the Prince of Wales 's feathers on the hood , it cost £30 , and was donated by a Mr F.A . |
| 11 | The thing is that I could n't cancel the draft — it cost £6.50 to get it , and would have cost another £12.00 to get it annulled . |
| 12 | It cost £4 million to build . |
| 13 | It cost £2.10 … ( this being equal to a tradesman 's pay for a 49-hour week ) . |
| 14 | It cost $600 million to launch the shuttle once . |
| 15 | Over £pound1,100 had been paid to strikers in Denmark , £pound 1,000 towards a dispute in Australia [ it cost £pound16 14s 6d to remit that amount ! ] and a further £pound1,000 to dock porters , coal trimmers and gas stokers . |
| 16 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 17 | It cost £90,000 to install just this one sign . |
| 18 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 19 | It cost £7 , and how he afforded that out of army pay , I shall never know . |
| 20 | It cost tuppence for a ride home from Norwich . |
| 21 | 200 years ago , it cost tuppence to cross the Thames at Pangbourne . |
| 22 | ‘ It cost £500 and I really ca n't see what my boys got out of it . |
| 23 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 24 | It was a 1925 Wolseley , and it cost £15 . |
| 25 | Although it was quite expensive ( it cost £36 ) , it 's so easy to use and saves so much time . |
| 26 | It cost £639 , expenditure which the district auditor disallowed . |
| 27 | It cost £25 , with a 5-inch cathode-ray tube as the screen . |
| 28 | In 1928 it cost £25 per gram , but by 1974 it was as low as £40 per kilogram . |
| 29 | ‘ I had my top made for me and it cost £70 . |
| 30 | In 1785 it cost £63,174 to build the 100-gun ship Victory . |