Example sentences of "it cost [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost £10 a go , but in terms of the cost of a double-page spread , say , it was very cost effective . ’ |
| 2 | It cost Galvone a lot to say that but he knew he 'd blundered . |
| 3 | It costs £100000 a minute to produce top quality graphics , on a computer system costing £10 million , so the people paying do not want something that looks as if it was shot with a camera for a few thousand pounds . |
| 4 | ‘ It costs $150–200 a ton to collect from the kerbside and sort household refuse . |
| 5 | It costs £180 a year but gives £50,000 of cover for all members of a family sharing one home . |
| 6 | It costs £700 a year to keep a child in a council day-nursery , and only children in real need — i.e. those whose mothers can not or will not care for them adequately at home — will get a place . |
| 7 | Using a real-life example that assumes it costs $5 a line to write code and that 100 lines of code can be written a day , SmartStar figures it can cut the cost of generating a trivial application to $750 compared with $12,000 using a tool kit and $7,000 using a Motif GUI builder . |
| 8 | He pointed out : ‘ It costs £8,000 a year for every person who is unemployed , £14,000 for every homeless family . |
| 9 | It costs £8,80 a bag . |