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Expensive in sentence

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And of course, the Swiss can be divided into two general categories: those who make small, exquisite, expensive objects and those who handle the money of those who buy small, exquisite, expensive objects.
In fact, one of his classmates is a young man named Lenin who would go on to break small, expensive, exquisite objects.
Unfortunately, it would be extremely expensive.
So it would be very expensive.
Right now, if you want to test water in the field, you need a trained technician, expensive equipment like this, and you have to wait about a day for chemical reactions to take place and provide results.
It's too slow to get a picture of conditions on the ground before they change, too expensive to implement in all the places that require testing.
Well, in the 1960s, a guy by the name of John Costas was working on the Navy's extremely expensive sonar system.
Now the problems with closed photobioreactors are: They are quite expensive, they are automated, and it's very difficult to get them in large scale.
There is a drawback to algae, however: It's very expensive.
Because typically they've been too inefficient, inaccessible, they've not been fast enough, they've been quite expensive.
It's a pretty expensive machine.
Most computers have two kinds of memory systems: a fast memory system, like a set of memory chips that has limited capacity, because those chips are expensive, and a slow memory system, which is much larger.
And, by God, film was expensive.
So he did another study using microsatellites, which is much more expensive, much more time-consuming, and to his surprise, came up with almost identical results.
We didn't calculate that precisely, but we understand that's very expensive.
Yet, we dither, taking no action to divert the asteroid, even though the longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it becomes.
I bet you're wondering, "How expensive could the set possibly be to transform you if you sit for two hours and 20 minutes in inky-black darkness?"
So a tremendous fund of knowledge despite, again, that so many people told her not to do it, it was too expensive.
Isn't that a very expensive solution for a small maneuverable flying object?
This isn't just inconvenient, this is inefficient, it's expensive, it's harmful to human health, harmful to the environment, and it's unproductive.
The only way they're going to lift themselves out of energy poverty is by adapting fuels that are more efficient, that are less expensive, that are better for human health, better for the environment and that are more productive.
One woman who I encountered turned down my offer, and she said, “Mon chéri, c'est trop Cher,” which basically means, “My dear, it's too expensive.”
It's very expensive for low-income households in developing countries to reach major centers of commerce.
For students, it's quite an experience, but for a school, it could be very difficult or expensive to maintain.
And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.
And it might be a little bit expensive at the time that we did it, but if it worked, we would truly be able to do something different.
When you go from a world where you treated arthritis with aspirin, that mostly didn't do the job, to one where, if it gets bad enough, we can do a hip replacement, a knee replacement that gives you years, maybe decades, without disability, a dramatic change, well is it any surprise that that $40,000 hip replacement replacing the 10-cent aspirin is more expensive?
As we've looked at the data about the results that have come as the complexity has increased, we found that the most expensive care is not necessarily the best care.
Because [if] to have the best results, you really needed the most expensive care in the country, or in the world, well then we really would be talking about rationing who we're going to cut off from Medicare.
A very expensive pile of junk that does not go anywhere.
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