Example sentences of "cost of [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some large firms have found it impossible to match competitors ' spending : Jaguar found it could not afford the costs of developing the next generation of engines and models and was forced to sell out to Ford in 1989 for £1.6 billion . |
| 2 | Hardy had to pay £75 towards the cost of printing a first edition of 500 copies . |
| 3 | A profit-maximising firm under conditions of perfect competition will expand production up to the point at which the additional cost of producing the last unit of output ( ’ marginal cost ’ ) is equal to price . |
| 4 | Hence the marginal cost of producing the last film must be the value of the meals sacrificed by using the last units of labour to make films rather than meals . |
| 5 | If the system is totally dependent on the successful operation of a single main processor then the cost of providing a second processor for redundancy should be identified . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State was being totally disingenuous because , if the cancellation cost of the fourth boat is the same as the cost of cancelling the first boat would have been , it would be cheaper to build the thing — so saving on the unemployment benefit that would otherwise be payable to the constituents of the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) — and not deploy it . |
| 7 | The financial cost of hosting the 11th PanAmerican games , held in the capital Havana on Aug. 3-18 , had reportedly increased social tensions . |