How To Use Expensive In A Sentence
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We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
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They will be slightly more expensive but they last a lot longer.
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Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal.
Hair fix #3
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The pills—containing inexpensive potassium iodide, which is the substance used to iodize common table salt—can prevent thyroid cancer by saturating the thyroid gland with a harmless type of iodine, keeping it from absorbing radioactive iodine that might be inhaled or ingested after a radiation release.
Quake Renews Call to Enforce Pill Law
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Now, though, insurers find they are increasingly paying out for teenagers crashing expensive vehicles that they would not normally have the ghost of a chance of obtaining cover for.
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‘The best place to make mercerized fabrics is still Italy, but they are very expensive,’ says Kwok.
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Packed with the same computing power as some laptops, wearables are still too expensive for average consumers.
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He has a very expensive wristwatch and he misses no opportunity to show it off.
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The company refused to honour the verbal agreement and put him on a more expensive tariff.
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KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece.
The Sun
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Or a pragmatic solution to an expensive problem that has dogged homebuyers for decades?
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Walls are generally the greatest source of heat loss and correspondingly expensive to tackle.
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But neither of those initiatives, expensive as they are, approach the civic munificence displayed by the Federal Reserve.
The Fed's Cash Machine
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Orchestral music and opera are expensive because they need large numbers of people.
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There can be few museums in the world whose range of exhibits includes a stuffed, 5ft-long, prehistoric fish and a pair of unworn, extremely expensive, blue cowboy-boots.
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They think they're way too expensive and la-di-da for a kid to have.
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As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste, so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate.
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Being able to prevent costly repairs is crucial on such expensive machinery.
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Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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And at least one expensive brand is thriving.
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Very slowly or moderately it was rising, and I thought I was at the estate of a wealthy person for the architecture was very expensive looking.
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Barmy idea - and I was too expensive?
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Fortunately, they were all reasonably priced; this could get seriously expensive if you're not careful!
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Each was on six-by-nine-inch notepaper, plain white, the kind from an inexpensive tear-off pad.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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Sebastian explains that the company is working to rebroadcast its signal terrestrially, so that it can be received by less expensive mobile receivers.
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On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved.
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However, there is a potential for increased tourism because of the natural beauty and varied topography and because the country is unspoiled and inexpensive.
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At around $1,195 it sounds expensive, until you realize your grandchildren will still be using it long after you've turned into dust and are part of the backstop at your local range.
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The ferocious battle for good schools and good universities is so expensive and emotionally draining that no parent would want to endure it twice.
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It is expensive and very energy intensive.
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That is all it will be; it will be an expensive talkfest.
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it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
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The impression of warmth and comfort and beauty predominated, though he was unable to analyze it; while the simplicity delighted him -- expensive simplicity, he decided, and most of it leftovers from the time her father went broke and died.
Chapter XVIII
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He forced them to open the safe and emptied it of cash, plus expensive watches and prescription drugs.
The Sun
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Costs have been cut by changing the crude mix and switching the plant's boilers to burn gas rather than more expensive fuel oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce. network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect.
Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy
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They do really good food at that restaurant and it's not very expensive either.
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That's an expensive private school for preppies, right?
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By comparison, last year 30,000 new affordable homes, categorised as more expensive than council properties but priced at below market rates, were built in London and the south-east.
Homes cuts: south-east 'faces disaster' over affordable housing
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Despite its relatively expensive price, customers keep coming back to replenish their supply of fine blends, ground coffee and beans.
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The most conspicuous result now is the Rideau Canal, an immensely expensive waterway that terminates in Ottawa.
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The most difficult and expensive item to acquire was a headset: these were often stolen from public telephone boxes.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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The point is that Ikea sells inexpensive furniture of surprisingly high quality.
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Although one of China's richest men,[sentence dictionary] he dresses inexpensively and lives in a modest Beijing apartment.
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But while more sophisticated procedures may save time, they often rely on more expensive equipment.
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International class equestrian and yachting are expensive sports to compete in at the top, and not exactly third world sports.
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For Lynn and Joe Rouse, the pergola is a versatile area that's relatively inexpensive to maintain.
Undefined
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Since then, Amazon has talked to media companies about smaller— and less expensive—caches of movies and TV shows than Net flix usually buys, those people added.
Amazon Adds Streaming-Video Service For Prime Members
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At least the State of California limits its total liability to a paltry $5K in exchange for a prohibitively expensive premium, that even if a person chose to insure herself against would not pay the bulldozers pushing the debris to one side or the other, as no amount of money makes these liabilities "insurable" to even the most profligage premium payer.
Balkinization
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That delights the band's publicist who has been telling us that this is a return to the era when album launches were hyper-expensive, orgiastic affairs that lasted all day and are still remembered.
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This made for an expensive month when you take into account that the average European household's budget over the same period was just €725.
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We were excited about it when we spotted it and it wasn't too expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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What is it about this particular ceremony that obligates people to travel vast distances, buy expensive casserole dishes, wear unnaturally tidy clothes, and take stupid numbers of photographs?
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For users, they are still expensive add-on features and come with their own set of integration problems.
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The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
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The Defendant engaged in frequent and expensive foreign travel with his wife, went out to numerous restaurants, and made lavish use of chauffeur driven limousines all at the Company's expense.
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Expensive champagne in exclusive nightclubs.
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Long gone are the days of convertible cars being expensive trinkets owned by drivers with designer sunglasses and fur coats.
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You can get to Edinburgh by train or plane, but either way it's very expensive.
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Furthermore,[sentence dictionary] they may be reluctant to invest in expensive post-registration education funding.
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It's also much more expensive to clean up and much more damaging to the proprietor seen as they usually cannot use a room I've just vacated - not until the fumigators have finished anyway.
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INSKEEP: Was that because studio time is expensive or because� (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. AUERBACH: That's because, you know, we're cheap.
BlakRoc: The Black Keys Do Hip-Hop
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With a romantic flourish, he produces a presentation box, he gently eases it open and shows his amour some fantastically expensive ring.
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Testing the Woonerf against alternatives Remodelling of residential areas into Woonerven is, of course, expensive.
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The honey seems extraordinarily expensive, but then sweetness was a prerogative of the rich until the eighteenth century.
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I was surprised at how many sports areas there are near the city centre and how inexpensive they are.
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They take for granted easy access to inexpensive technological, social and collaborative tools.
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All the time our idiot in his costly clothing with expensive tackle failed to catch a single fish.
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Irvine and Martin have themselves developed a method of assessing the performance of some of Britain's most expensive scientific investments.
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It was a Christmas when shoppers passed by expensive silks in favor of more practical gifts.
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They make the printers cheap so you are caught and have to keep feeding them with all that expensive ink.
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And why have the solutions presented thus far been so expensive and ineffective?
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With the brass and woodwind programs repair bills are very expensive.
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We have always tried to make her see that the inner worth of people is what is important, not the expensive trappings on the outside.
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Tickets were less expensive than I had expected.
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The women have to purchase expensive gowns and matching accessories to keep up with expectations.
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These were such an expensive indulgence for me at the time (balata balls had great feel but cut easily) that I never actually used them.
Balls in the Basement
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The group also was able to include a hydronic heating system, which is healthier for a home's inhabitants but usually much more expensive than forced-air heat.
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Some are important reference books; some are expensive hardbacks; some were presents.
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Yet students who have completed expensive training face the same difficulties as an untrained actor in qualifying for an Equity card.
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Covering the webbed seat with inexpensive toweling renders this stool pool- or patio-worthy while the interior provides a spot to stow toys and picnic supplies.
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Verdict An unbeatable combination of small size and big illumination, but it is expensive.
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The franchises could be re-let eventually but the tendering process is expensive and any bids would be much lower.
Times, Sunday Times
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A second set of power lines, phone lines, water pipes or natural gas pipes is too expensive and inefficient.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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This would mean that the districts would be more accessible and food supplies could reach them by road as well instead of having them airlifted which is more expensive.
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Food is less available and expensive food such as red meat is a rare delicacy.
Coping with Angina
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An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine.
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These options are more expensive than brick and blockwork but the construction industry believes the savings in terms of time, labour and productivity make them cost effective.
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It was an expensive meal but worth every penny.
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The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have.
Birthday Boy
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High fuel costs make commodities more expensive and put a premium on locally produced goods.
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The revolutionary socialists only agreed to cease their protest when they were invited to an after-show lig in one of the capital's most expensive pubs.
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Copper conducts heat and electricity extremely efficiently and is less expensive at the present.
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This was best carried out as near as possible to where the crops grew, as untreated grain was bulky and expensive to transport.
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This is a rare opportunity to make a substantial reform without an expensive revolution.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
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Still, when looked at as a percentage of total automotive lighting, LED use is just a sliver, and an expensive one at that, so why are LED makers so bullish?
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Halogen lamps give excellent service, hut the bulbs are fairly expensive to replace.
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Most tile stores sell grout saws, an inexpensive tool with a wooden or plastic handle and a tip covered with carbide grit.
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Sixth and last, some polluters felt that meeting the standards was just too darn expensive and threatened plant closures.
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More expensive cameras have adjustable focusing.
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Lunch in an expensive restaurant was the high spot of the day.
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When she lost her job they could no longer sustain their expensive lifestyle.
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Therefore, biodiesel can be used in diesel engines without expensive alterations to the engine or fuel system.
Hamilton Yrs | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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The licensing procedure requires clearance from police, fire, health and safety, local authority, and local residents, and may come with expensive conditions attached.
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She has style, grace and expensive taste in clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using $5/mmbtu natural gas, the costs of meeting wind variability is around $45-50/MWH which is expensive relative to coal but is very competitive relative to the market in California.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More on Wind
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‘Luckily our fire marshals reacted in time and prevented the total loss of an expensive participating vehicle,’ he said.
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However, this hormone is extremely expensive, and its adverse effects include carpal tunnel syndrome, headache, arthralgias, myalgias and gynecomastia.
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It is alleged that London-Brussels is the most expensive journey per mile in the world.
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Oh … and David Wilcox was there, standing beside the burly, cold-eyed man with the expensive suit and brilliantined hair.
DIAMOND RUBY
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And while it's pretty expensive to incarcerate men, you can expect to spend double the cost to incarcerate women because of the cost of their confinement and also the cost to society of their kids.
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The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained, expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
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The shire's existing bowling club has become too expensive to maintain, especially with the price of labour and of materials such as fertiliser and weedicides constantly rising thereby putting more burden on a declining membership.
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Check the wiring and the plumbing too, as these are the most expensive and disruptive jobs to take on.
The Sun
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On the rewards: Apparently, Cristiano "lavished" her with expensive gifts including a designer handbag and an Armani belt.
Kickette Blog
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Generic citalopram (Celexa is the more expensive brand).
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We are no longer required as we are too expensive - even though we have had no pay regrading for over a decade.
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Although extensive (and presumably fantastically expensive), the excavations revealed a story of only local interest, with Medieval and later expansion by Kingston upon Thames via a series of revetments into the river.
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Some plans have a self-directed brokerage account option, which allows investors to purchase the assets for a couch potato portfolio, but the fees can make this option expensive and not worthwhile.
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Private childcare is still too expensive for the average earner.
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In the short-term, excess wage inflation acts as a self-correcting mechanism to stop bubbles: as workers become too expensive, companies stop hiring.
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Cadillac- a compact smaller and less expensive than its CTS line that already is made at that plant in Michigan's capital city.
USATODAY.com News
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This was the approach favoured by the group of countries with incipient pharmaceutical industries capable of producing generic copies of highly expensive drugs.
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The company is anxious to avoid an expensive court case.
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The bargains will prove to be very expensive if you have to pay interest on the money you spent.
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Therefore, the more expensive modern latex ulama balls are made by the traditional technique of using boiled rubber sap mixed with other ingredients required for vulcanization.
History of Sport Resulting in Sudden Death Near Puerto Vallarta
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A small, inexpensive device that measures how fast air moves out of the child's lungs when a child exhales; it measures the peak expiratory flow (PEF) which is an indicator of airway size.
Glossary
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The diamond ring is the most expensive.
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Will commercial vehicle operators buy long-lasting, reliable but expensive quality tyres, or cheap, short-life imports and re-moulds?
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And because Colonel Morse had advised him that he would be lecturing to “huge audiences in vast auditoria,” in the weeks before his departure, Oscar engaged the services of an expensive expert on oratory to give him elocution lessons.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
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And this is despite the fact that champagne is more expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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If would have been quite hilarious to see the pampered boys' reaction to having his expensive clothing set aflame.
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Thanks to fire regulations, disguising new self-closing ones to look old was hideously expensive.
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Have you got anything less expensive?
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It's so expensive to borrow from finance companies.
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Your shopping is about to get more expensive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mostly inexpensive metalwork such as ringed pins characterize the industry and crafts going on in the town.
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The most expensive components of motoring are: financing the car, motor insurance and car tax.
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It's expensive to leave the electric stove on all day.
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Expensive costumes were a vital part of the visual appeal of theatre, and characters of high social rank were represented by appropriately luxurious clothing.
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For decades the small but powerful unions of printers and pressmen had won rich contract settlements as well as expensive press manning clauses and lifetime job guarantees for the compositors displaced by computerized typesetting.
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England, as the bigger, richer player with more money in the kitty, could apparently offer more in the way of expensive, ancillary support.
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Heathrow is already the most expensive hub airport in the world.
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These products are surrounded by considerable mystique and are often outrageously expensive.
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Getting private treatment for infertility can be very expensive, and there is no guarantee it will be successful.
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There's no point buying him expensive wines - he doesn't appreciate them.
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My new gym is very expensive and somewhat swanky.
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Meanwhile, very expensive thoroughbred horses, stud bulls, or whatever animals they may be could well be under threat.
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He has no expensive hobbies, and has cut his gym use to visit on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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It also became the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.
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Suddenly her heel caught in the stairs and she tumbled down, head first, ruining her flowers and expensive hair do.
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Re peace overtures, Krushchev and Eisenhower were about to have a big summit that might have staved off the hideously expensive Cold War.
Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy
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For example, a local doctor contracted to provide care to Woomera detainees noted that the dispensary at the camp did not fill at least one prescription he provided to an inmate because the drug was regarded as excessively expensive.
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Inexpensive measures can potentially enhance conspicuity - for example, adding a light source and the use of light, bright, reflective, or fluorescent colours.
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That deal could make it more expensive for the state if Mr. Walker succeeds in canceling the project.
New Midwest Governors Could Derail High-Speed Trains
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The two sides have agreed to take the matter to arbitration to avoid expensive legal costs.
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Smoked salmon was considered an expensive delicacy.
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Why would the these companies feel the need wrest control of the governing bodies, ignore conflicts of interest and insist on being able to hand-pick the researchers in areas of research as controversial and potentially as expensive and lucrative as climate change?
RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil
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The super expensive silver-leathered footwear are decorated with 185 carats of tanzanite which is a rare gemstone found only in Africa …
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They have the advantage of convenient dosing schedules, but they are expensive.
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And devaluing the peso could boost inflation, as imported goods will become much more expensive.
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All I see is his broad back encased in an expensive black suit, and the elegant cut of his dark hair.
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Both towns are known for inexpensive, well-designed furniture in rustic styles.
Buying Furniture
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It must be expensive. --Not really.
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I would want a book from the gifter because it will last and it doesnt have to be expensive BUT the most important thing to me would be the inscription to the baby and then getting to read that book to the baby and then the toddler and then the child and always telling them the story of how the book came to them.
Baby Shower Q: “In lieu of a card, bring a book” WTF!? « Children Literacy « Literacy Help « Literacy News
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I must move to a larger house or spend money extending this one; either will be expensive, so I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea.
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We always celebrate our wedding anniversary with dinner in an expensive restaurant.
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Beef and dairy farmers in Midwestern states that produce most of the nation's ethanol are able to feed their cattle with less expensive grains leftover from distilling that fuel.
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We sprung for expensive couchette seats, and ended up with our own little cabin on the boat.
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One of the most expensive departments in a car plant is the paint shop, so DeLorean saved the money and pretended that the brushed stainless steel finish was a style feature.
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It is a glossy, expensive 22 page long document, liberally illustrated with colour photographs.
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You should avoid exceptions because the stack - unwinding mechanism is very expensive.
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Lunch in an expensive restaurant was the high spot of the day.
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In its place, NASA is considering a plan to design and launch an occulter and connect it with the James Webb Space Telescope, the highly sophisticated and very expensive successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and scheduled to launch in 2014.
First Contact
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This is insurable, but expensive - it happens a lot.
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There is a guy in Bedfordshire who has sold the world's most expensive cat - a cross breed between a domestic cat and a feral one.
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I get very nervous because I'm using a lot of expensive equipment.
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Weddings are usually large, expensive affairs paid for by the groom's family.
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They're also many times more expensive per gigabyte, which is why you don't see SSD technology in every computer on the market -- yet.
Fool.com Headlines
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It is expensive to travel by plane.
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In order to have cleaner air in our house, we invest in a lot of things such as disinfecting aerosol sprays and expensive air purifiers.
EzineArticles
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Lewis Latimer, the son of runaway slaves, became an electrical engineer and invented an inexpensive process for making light bulb filaments.
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Police are warning homeowners to fit strong locks on sheds and garages, cover windows with old curtains, install an expensive but noisy alarm and ensure that the household insurance policy covers the value of shed contents.
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Merino, cashmere, Angora… these luxury yarns were too expensive to be hastily turned into just another scarf.
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West Coast liberals need to admit that their ideas are too expensive to sustain, which is why California is bankrupt.
HolyCoast.com
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It's too expensive and anyway the colour doesn't suit you.
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She has done heaps of different courses in a range of areas but found that being able to sew stretchy fabrics meant she has been able to make clothes for the whole family quickly and inexpensively.
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The price of eggs has risen because of more humane - and expensive - battery farming.
Times, Sunday Times
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This piece of furniture is really inexpensive with a price of less than forty dollars.
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That is expensive to the workers who farm it, for a return of about ten pence a kilo.
Times, Sunday Times
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I recalled the time when she made me shoplift that expensive shampoo and conditioner she loved at the drugstore.
Brooklyn Story
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Decorate your home inexpensively with loads of balloons and streamers.
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Early cameos are carved from hardstones such as onyx, sardonyx, or agate, while later a number of less expensive substances were used that were also easier to carve.
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She noted at once that their suits were different in some manner - it was the shoulders; they had raglan sleeves and looked very expensive, and somehow foreign.
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Craig Alexander and Barry Scott, both 27, realised that crewing expensive yachts under a Caribbean sun offered more than fun.
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It is expensive - between €600 and €700 a week for Jason to reside there - but Frank is not quibbling.
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Fruits and vegetables are expensive crops to grow.
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Another issue is the recommendation of the board that investigated the 2003 disintegration of Columbia that NASA put the orbiters through an expensive "recertification" inspection if they were to fly past 2010.
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