1. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. 

2. The six-month delay will be costly for the company.

3. The royal train was fitted up with costly furniture.

4. Passenger ships are a costly way to travel.

5. Our former process was too costly.

5.

6. An indiscreet remark triggered off a long and costly strike.

7. The long and costly strike proved to be the last nail in the company's coffin.

8. Such a database would be extremely costly to set up.

9. Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.

10. Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?

11. She rationalized the expense by saying that the costly carpet she had bought would last longer than a cheaper one.

12. Coastal defence is a costly business.

13. It can be costly to refinance.

14. The proposal was rejected as too costly.

15. The castle will undergo extensive and costly renovations.

16. Having curtains made professionally can be costly.

17. Your plan fell down when it proved too costly.

18. It would be too costly to repair the car.

19. Buying new furniture may prove too costly.

20. This process is costly in computer time.

21. It proved to be a costly mistake.

22. This approach is too inflexible and too costly.

23. Mining can be costly in terms of lives .

24. The venture proved a costly failure.

25. The ring was very costly.

26. These measures could be costly to employers.

27. It has been rather costly to install the machinery(), but it should pay off in the long run.

28. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes.

29. Complete replacement of the roof tiles would be very costly.

30. The scheme was jettisoned when the government found it too costly.

1. The six-month delay will be costly for the company.

2. Passenger ships are a costly way to travel.

3. An indiscreet remark triggered off a long and costly strike.

4. Such a database would be extremely costly to set up.

5. Complete replacement of the roof tiles would be very costly.

5.

6. Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.

7. Having professionally made curtains can be costly, so why not make your own?

8. She rationalized the expense by saying that the costly carpet she had bought would last longer than a cheaper one.

9. It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.

31. His delay in making a decision could prove costly in the long run.

32. At the required level of visual verisimilitude, computer animation is costly.

33. Take out our service contract and say goodbye to costly repair bills.

34. His plan is too costly to ever get off the ground.

35. These teaching methods are too costly in terms of staff resources.

36. It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.

37. Terrorist groups and the government have been engaged in a costly war of attrition since 1968.

38. Too controversial,(sentence dictionary) some warned. Too costly.

39. Making a shell is costly for a snail.

40. Not all good day care is so costly.

41. Not very costly, but there is some cost involved.

42. It is too inflexible, too costly, and too rigid.

43. Fossil hunting is a costly business.

44. Buying all those computers was a costly mistake.

45. Per unit of bitterness they are roughly as costly.

46. The war proved costly for both companies.

47. The day had been extraordinarily costly for both sides.

48. To do so is very costly.

49. Relocating individual staff abroad is an extremely costly procedure.

50. New, more costly technologies constantly escalate per capita costs.

51. Failure to protect yourself adequately could prove costly.

52. Relocating an employee can prove very costly.

53. Desirable desires are priceless, undesirable desires are costly. Dr T.P.Chia 

54. A costly and illogical drain on its scant resources.

55. A breakdown would be extremely costly and dangerous.

56. These braces are costly but well worth the outlay if the alternative is to stop skiing altogether.

57. The information system used to collate these statistics is presumably extensive and costly.

58. Yet in all but a very few, it is people that are the organisation's most costly and most valuable asset.

59. City Lands director Peter Coffey said alternative access routes were impractical or too costly.

60. The plans will show a more powerful and less costly product than existing prototypes.

61. An all-out attack by a junior on a senior at a meeting is usually costly, especially if the junior member wins.

62. Any delay in the production process is costly to a company.

63. Economic returns can accrue when ambulatory nutrition care contributes to reducing the need for costly medical care.

64. Aundray Bruce committed the most costly one, on third-and-5 in the first quarter.

65. The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters.

66. All of these methods are extremely costly and frankly are not helping the initial cause of the problem.

67. The finance committee rejected their plan because they said it was too costly.

68. Rivers also flood(), and such floods are sometimes very costly in terms of loss of life and destruction of property.

69. Several of the gifts were costly, including a cup of gold and a crystal salt-set.

70. This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.

71. Amgen also said it would pay for any human trials to test the drugs, a potentially costly expense.

72. Most lawyers spend most of their time helping clients prevent or resolve disputes, trying their best to avoid costly litigation.

73. A lawsuit would be costly and we would probably lose.

74. Dimas Teixeira's decision to stand off Beckham quickly proved costly.

75. The new laws support yearly renewable consumer choice, and at the same time reduce unnecessary and costly culinary options.

76. Not only have the alternatives proved too costly, they've also been too complicated to use.

77. Having just undertaken a costly bail-out of the thrifts and tightened regulations, it might seem that this problem is behind us.

78. Fortunately, my passengers spot it and we avoid delays and costly repairs.

79. Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment.

80. On the other hand a refractor is more costly, and in some ways less convenient to use.

81. It proclaims the burdens of pollution control regulation, displaying industry as suffocating under costly yet trivial constraints.

82. The assumption that large authorities are costly and bureaucratic is wrong, according to the Regional Council.

83. The arithmetic of compound interest is such that delays in making contributions to trust funds tend to be quite costly.

84. They were large, costly, rather unreliable and required a dedicated data processing team to support them.

85. In the case of automobiles, you have a choice of valuation methods, and choosing the wrong one can be costly.

86. Expanded IRAs for this higher-income group will give costly tax breaks to people who are already saving for retirement.

87. In the long run, persistent current account deficits are difficult and costly to sustain and are damaging to an economy.

88. That is where Missoni sells its wickedly costly sweaters, and those eye-catching scarves.

89. It is the most costly spectacle on earth and it can not be repeated again this century.

90. But the airline business is a cash-hungry one-and strikes are enormously costly.

91. The price for not doing so was costly mistakes and severe stress.

92. Purchase of market share is seen to be less costly than establishing brands - and is quicker too.

93. Meanwhile, the firing from the walls was undiminished, and the last stages of trenching had proved extremely costly.

94. Normally, cowls require considerable maintenance and possible replacement every ten years - a costly consequence of owning an oast.

95. There is no point in dimming fluorescent light; although it is possible, it is extremely costly and unnecessary.

96. From a cash-flow standpoint, that is less costly than actually paying your corporation an additional $ 200 in interest.

97. I have chosen the most costly problems, those that practitioners see over and over again.

98. Secondly, wars which involved civilian targets were less dangerous and cheaper to organise, but very costly for the defender.

99. Avoiding the poll tax will be costly in terms of universal political citizenship.

100. Still, there was, at times, an element of complacency in de Gaulle's approach, which proved costly.

101. This is more costly and is not ideal but it is nevertheless feasible.

102. There are less costly ways of recognising the contribution teachers make.

103. Short-term debt is generally less costly than long-term debt but is also riskier.

104. He said suing the building society would only delay matters and make resolving the problem more costly.

105. Convening production lines to largely automated production of flat panel sets would be costly in the short term.

106. Mr Collin thinks that could prove costly and time consuming.

107. Yet even now there is a sense of denial that could prove costly.

108. Water belched out as he drenched each tree, pouring the costly stuff into the deep trench which circled their trunks.

109. Often they are in relatively expensive sites on high streets with costly business rates.

110. Furthermore, the packets were too costly for the average people to buy, conflicting with the second criterion.

111. I love beautiful things, simple things, but they are the most costly.

112. Leroy bitterly opposed the plan for being cumbersome and costly.

113. On Tuesday, Brown said he would begin looking for the money to finance the costly project.

114. Redesigning chips takes time and money; simulations can help avoid costly mistakes.

115. Producers must receive a higher price to produce these more costly units. 7 Price and quantity supplied are directly related.

116. Some fast food restaurants will be obliged to install costly emission-control vents.

117. Psychologically it is costly because we are in bondage to the person we will not forgive.

118. But they made a costly mistake in teaching their language to the hoipolloi.

119. Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.

120. Front and rear valances also bolt on, but are more costly than the sills to replace.

121. After all, if the executives fail in the new location, the employer will have made a costly mistake.

122. It's too far and much too costly and they couldn't possibly cover their expenses.

123. It would mean a far more costly and complex voyage by human explorers, currently envisioned no sooner than 2018.

124. The unwise patronage policy of the Santa Anna administration had been very costly.

125. Yet the effort, far more costly than anything ever attempted by any government,(http:///costly.html) has not produced the expected returns.

126. But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game, despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence.

127. Smaller and less costly items such as pens, beauty products and food are much more obvious candidates for a more general distribution.

128. Its peeling paint and broken windows stand testimony that it went out of business because it had become too costly to maintain.

129. They claimed a report advising against fighting a costly appeal with the electricity giant should have been discussed in closed session.

130. Margarines are available at widely differing costs, with the most expensive ones being twice as costly as the least expensive ones.

131. It is a costly myth, however that organization alignment must precede fundamental change.

132. Under the new rules, buyouts are much more costly than under the old plan.

133. To do otherwise could be a costly mistake all round.

134. The argument most often put forward against tax relief for childcare is that it would be extremely costly to the Exchequer.

135. On the other hand, the proposed scheme is going to be extremely costly, both in terms of money and teachers' time.

136. The reason is that people are living longer and medical treatment is more complicated and therefore more costly.

137. The threat of a costly legal battle doomed the proposal.

138. But the pioneer also risks making costly mistakes which its rivals can learn from.

139. He received no reply; seldom can a mislaid letter have had so costly a sequel.

140. Taylor's pinched nerve has been the team's most costly injury this season.

141. The half-day program is also a lot less costly to a district than a full-day program.

142. Then knightly armour grew more elaborate and costly throughout the century.

143. The Gallipoli campaign ended in dismal and costly failure, with withdrawal from the peninsula commencing on 19 December.

144. The battle with John McCain was politically and financially costly for Bush-asthe new Pew poll proves.

145. It was a habit of disguise that she recognized as costly but could not be rid of.

146. Instead it utilised materials less costly and more readily obtainable.

147. Not only does it discredit traditional replication techniques, it also steers the organization toward less costly ways of achieving its ends.

148. It was, instead, a futile and costly detour in making the transition from a feudalistic system to a market economy.

149. BStill, to this day, it is unclear how Moon finances his costly operations.

150. Users can reach their own collective agreements on usage, but these may be costly to organize and enforce.

151. In addition to these considerations of Layfield, the collection of the tax should not be excessively costly or present substantial new administrative problems.

152. Moreover, creating large bodies of worthwhile intellectual property is a specialised and costly business.

153. However, all this makes the Rolls a more costly proposition if it needs repairing.

154. Economically, the care of AIDS patients will put a tremendous strain on our already overburdened and costly health care delivery system.

155. Boeing Learns a Lesson in Predictability Mass layoffs prove costly in upswing when workers have taken skills(http://), loyalty elsewhere.

156. In early experiments I actually used Guinness in the dough but it is too costly.

157. The promised long-term care coverage is a primary reason the system is criticized as too costly for its budget.

158. Aside from being a costly super weapon during an era of Pentagon cutbacks, the F-22 has serious competition.

159. Caring for the park's swans is a costly business - roughly $26,600 per year.

160. In the old days, signing up and connecting a new customer in a medium-sized city would be a costly exercise.

161. Training for partners and staff is necessary and costly although important in an increasingly competitive market.

162. The failure to stock merchandise that matches customer demand can be extremely costly.

163. Some of these ISPs have tried to cancel contracts with spammers, but revocation can be costly.

164. Reprocessing is becoming an increasingly costly item in the fuel cycle of Britain's ageing Magnox reactors.

165. Maximum use of state-of-the-art technology in place of costly and often error-prone personnel.

166. However, historical reviews of business failure rates show that the incidence of new product failure is very high and costly.

167. The period of costly childhood dependency was further lengthened by the introduction of compulsory education from 1880.

168. Internet access is a costly business to run, so revenue has to come from somewhere.

169. The record shows a tendency to make a couple of kinds of particularly costly mistakes.

170. Indeed, the 1996 campaign season is headed for the history books as the most costly in history.

171. Treatment efforts in general are not very successful. Child abuse and neglect continue despite early, thoughtful, and often costly intervention.

172. A string of personal disasters culminated in a costly court appearance for wrecking a taxi after a night out.

173. Before its completion, there was a greater requirement for a lighter and less costly tank.

174. But new designs, which do without costly transformers, have trimmed prices.

175. These cases are too costly and too risky for most lawyers and most litigants.

176. A good frame-maker can keep you from making costly mistakes, says Gelay, such as putting Plexiglas over charcoal.

177. Vacant possession will be delayed and will prove costly, if not virtually impossible, to obtain.

178. Like divorce, it is painful and sometimes very costly to buy out a hostile partner.

179. Punitive damages potentially could be much more costly to cigarette companies than compensatory damages.

180. Ridding his stables of a harmful bacteria cocktail has been a long and costly process for Berwickshire trainer James Adam.

181. However, to try to salvage these items would be very costly.

182. White-collar crime appeared to be a normal and accepted part of business practice, being both very costly and highly organised.

183. Though a useful vote-catcher before an election, it becomes a costly business thereafter.

184. The company announced Tuesday it had adopted a shareholder rights plan designed to make a takeover more costly.

185. This type of Ajax pattern is particularly handy when you have a line item or detail type report in which finding the detail of each record is costly, and therefore,(http:///costly.html) doing so on demand is ideal.

186. Taking physical delivery of gold can be costly and complicated.

187. Following that scandal, Nortel emerged from a costly settlement of a class-action suit with a weak balance sheet, the informed person said.

188. It is proposed rare earth chrome-manganese-silicon alloy can replace the costly rare earth ferro-molybdenum alloy to produce diesel engine cylinder with high property.

189. Small businesses are typically informationally opaque and managerially costly, and these exist some obstacles for banks to extend credits to small businesses.

190. The grouping operation is about as costly performance-wise as sorting the data by the grouping column.

191. Zahavi's handicap principle - This principle states that in order to be honest, a signal must be costly to the signaler.

192. F.C.C. Chairman Julius Genachowski says the service available is slow and costly compared with other developed countries.

193. Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses and return an infinite profit.

194. Having a unique short code can be beneficial for branding, such as the Red Cross's 90999 code, but these are more costly.

195. Though regression testing is costly, it is absolutely necessary in test process.

196. As getting online became cheaper, and operating private networks became more costly and cumbersome compared to using the standard internet, companies began using the regular net.

197. They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.

198. In addition, 64 serial number by factory photoetching , leave out costly user process designing, can prevent serial number to be distorted.

199. In the process, you will subject yourself to any number of self-generated, costly errors.

200. While Liverpool's prolificacy in front of goal has naturally delighted Aurelio, the full-back is adamant the defensive mistakes that have proven costly must be eradicated, starting at Hull City today.

201. Namely, you today low some buy a share, what costly undersell bought yesterday is same pay a share!

202. While we are on the level of general theory, let me point out that restraining competition in resource use is costly, and these costs are somewhat misleadingly called transaction costs.

203. I'm not quite sure how the government avoids default risk without substantial loan collection costs, and even with aggressive and costly collection not all default can be avoided.

204. A lot of people in the financial community are annoyed by them because these regulations are costly to comply with and they take a lot of resources.

205. Paper and blister secure costly tube To thwart shoplifting of a small but expensive tube of over-the-counter medicine, a pharmaceutical company has turned to a paper-and-blister combination package.

206. For most of the industry's history, however, oil has been overabundant, so its price has been too low to justify significant and costly innovations.

207. Databases with self-tuning memory capabilities will detect costly queries and attempt to keep small tables in memory, mitigating I/O costs and reducing response time somewhat.

208. An effective preventive maintenance plan for your UPS and batteries saves both time and money by preventing costly down-time and extending the useful lifespan of your equipment.

209. Fearful of making a costly mistake, I decided to read up on procedures and standards on the federal Office of Personnel Management web page.

210. This is reinvestment risk, which can be more costly than other sorts of risk.

211. The utilization of many large costly and rare implements needed in the test of high-angle fire, such as the photograph theodolite, ballistic camera etc, are avoided by using the method.

212. It was often better thanmaking international phone calls , which were cumbersome, crackly and costly.

213. We use oceanographic research vessels but they are very limited in their operational capabilities and are also very costly.

214. CNBC said IBM decided against the move after looking at Sun's structured contracts, as well as change of control clauses that would make an acquisition of the company costly.

215. Even raw chicken in the grocery store is sometimes 'enhanced' with salt water to make it plumper (and heavier, and thus more costly).

216. The sea-going eunuchs fell from favour (Zheng's missions were staggeringly costly) and by 1500 it was a capital offence to go to sea in a two-masted ship without permission.

217. The unscalable case expression and the unreusable reasoning process lead to the development and the maintenance of the systems difficult and costly.

218. The solder style ZWB 999's may be installed without disassembly, saving costly installation time.

219. Reliability is very important in the chemical process industries (CPI). a faulty piece of equipment, process upset or leak can cause costly downtime.

220. Three-piece is more costly, but is easier to disassemble and offers in-line repairability. Available in full- or standard-port balls.

221. Using an MFT strategy could result in a 2.5 to three-fold increase in the amount of time a single drug could be used, Boni added, reducing costly surveillance methods for drug resistance.

222. Switzerland struggled to convince skeptical European neighbors to support its ambitious and costly TransAlpine rail plans in the 1990s.

223. Bush signed on July 26, 1990, can be burdensome, costly and an overextension of the government's authority over the private sector, others say it could be stronger.

224. If just one story about a costly quarantine ( of ISPM 15 noncompliant cargo ) gets in the press, it could be a real threat to the wood pallet industry.

225. The most costly health facility is the one that fails.

226. This devotional is by Jon Walker, editor of the Daily Hope Devotionals and author of Costly Grace: A Contemporary View of Bonhoeffer's ‘The Cost of Discipleship.

227. It may have been too costly, tied down too many men, and came to symbolize France’s defensive attitude, but the Great Wall of France fulfilled its designated mission.

228. Developers will move files to and from the version management server frequently and any breakdown of the system will likely be very costly in terms of developer productivity.

229. Those who could flee the public system for costly private schools, or for the eight semi-private schools run on the British system, did so.

230. The new transformer design used an ungapped pot core that was less costly and easier to obtain than a gapped pot core.

231. Although web services allow online offerings to connect, for instance, it is costly to synchronise their data.

232. Energy and the technology to desalinate water are both expensive, and this means that desalinating water can be pretty costly.

233. A demand thus arises for elaborate and costly manufactured articles, adapted to a narrow but a wealthy market.

234. Don't count on the bumper to hold up during a low-speed collision. And that fender-bender could be costly.

235. Surface-to-surface missile weapon system is very huge and costly, and it has little opportunity to join actual combat.

236. They changed their eating habits: instead of costly fruit and meat, Sherrill buys beans and corn and peanut butter, and looks for day-old loaves of bread.

237. Zahavi's handicap principle states that an honest signal must be costly to the signaler, meaning that only fit individuals can signal honestly.

238. But the program has critics. They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.

239. That would be the longshoremen's union, which has negotiated very costly insurance benefits.

240. This saves costly repairs to existing servos and eliminates difficulties in obtaining spare parts for obsolete equipment. Learn more from EHPS product spec 03342.

241. "It's a major shortcoming, " Thorpe said about the lack of care coordination that can lead to higher hospital readmission rates and other costly interventions for undertreated illnesses.

242. The production sequence of rubber filling oil is complicated and costly.

243. In addition, traders have psychological short-sales restriction on a markets with majority of individual investors even if short sales are not costly according to the institution.

244. "It was a catastrophic error. It caused a loss of confidence in the [US] authorities' ability to handle the financial crisis which really did change things and proved hugely costly, " he said.

245. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

246. Hydrogen, meanwhile, requires costly cryogenic storage that can be hazardous to operate and large, insulated tanks that take up space and weight.

247. But line rotary cutter die cutting machine is also a costly Rotary processing cycle length - cutting roller.

248. Don't complain transportation expenses are too costly. The inflation,(http:///costly.html) is what you have paid for.

249. Theywould become a kind of liquid capital—a "blessing" in a world wheregold and silver was costly to transport and use for transactions.

250. It is unlikely that many African nations will be able to afford such a costly medicine for breast cancer, when far cheaper ones for colon and testicular cancer are going wanting.