How To Use Costing In A Sentence
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The watertight rooms, costing from £500 a night up to £3,000 for a suite, are aimed at wealthy travellers who want a unique holiday experience.
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The company collapsed last week, costing about 200 jobs and triggering a backlash from staff and suppliers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fraud is thought to be costing software companies millions of dollars a year.
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A major refit costing $2 million will be required after both the fifth and tenth years.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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Energy modeling and lifecycle costing can give facility executives a solid idea of the costs and benefits associated with their choices before a facility is built.
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A food processor costing, say, ￡48 will not fetch more than ￡35 on resale.
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But the tops are useless without a launcher, costing another £3.99, which spins the tops into each other at high speed.
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The war dragged on, costing the lives of many thousands of civilians and servicemen.
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This area requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the surreptitious cost of the car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year in the U.S. alone, much of that going to the sustentation of a military presence in the Persian Gulf.
Driving Mister Barack
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We tried a bottle of 2002 Bel Colle Moscato d'Asti, which is slightly fancier version of Asti Spumonte: slightly less sweet, costing slightly more $12 to $15, and slightly less sparkling.
September 2004
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My mother said, Strine accent quite noticeable, `Can't talk long, Thea, this is costing us an arm and a leg.
TIME OF THE WOLF
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This is a versatile four-door saloon that can out accelerate supercars costing almost ten times as much.
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NEARLY 300 foreign lags have been kept in jail beyond their sentence to await deportation - costing taxpayers thousands of pounds.
The Sun
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The clinic fee is almost sufficient to cover a counsellor's sessional fee, thus costing the practice a minimal amount.
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Energy and Global Warming News for 11/12/09: Germany to help develop Moroccan solar-thermal energy projects; Clinton calls Copenhagen "steppingstone"; Military's growing thirst for oil is costing lives - report The Seattle activists 'coming of age in Cophenhagen will be very disobedient
Climate Progress
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The 15,000 sq.ft. of building is costing over $350 per sq/ft.
Is it time for the city to fold on the "Heritage Building"? (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Brochures and costings are to be obtained with the possibility of new equipment being provided on the play area.
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I want to ask him to open the books and tell us exactly what this war is costing in financial terms.
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Vegetables and fruits are very expensive with an avocado pear in town centre costing K2,500 instead of K500 in Ndola.
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However he admitted him, and Worthington sent his son to buy a mutchkin of whisky costing two shillings, sending him first with a pound note and then, when no change was to be had, with silver.
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We take firms through a process called activity-based costing.
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Pakistan has had another attack of the 'butterfingers', costing the tourists the chance to put Australia, and captain Ricky Ponting in particular, under severe pressure on the opening day of the third Test at Bellerive Oval.
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We'll need accurate costings before we can agree to fund the scheme.
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Viewers could play along at home on a mobile phone app costing 1 per episode.
The Sun
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Between cost overruns and long-term upkeep, it will end up costing taxpayers a fortune -- and the illegal immigrants will just shift their border crossings to areas beyond the reach of the fence.
David Wallechinsky: The Border Fence: A Work of Art?
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Being an engineer by profession, he then informed me that I should go to my bedroom and write a detailed costing for materials to construct a child's bike.
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Overall, the MDX does many things very well and manages to outpoint other luxury SUVs costing much more.
From the logbook: Acura MDX
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Opposition politicians have slammed a ‘grandiose’ project to install a massive weatherproof plasma TV screen in Hull city centre costing £675,000.
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The complex's 2,300 miners were redeployed to maintenance work, costing RJB Mining about £1 million a day.
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As enemies close in from all sides, Peter Parker tries to outrace the danger and find the truth that†™ s costing innocent lives!
Marvel Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Get there by car on the M1, exit 8 or train to Hemel and taxi costing ￡2.50.
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To apply behavior costing methodology properly, both direct and indirect costs must be considered.
A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
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I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
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Even fighting for the glory of the Overlord starts to pale when it's costing you money and there's no plunder in sight.
TREASON KEEP
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A seven-way skirmish then broke out over a pinafore dress costing 10p, which escalated into a full-scale melee resulting in another 18 lives being lost.
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The restrictions on job-placement tests may be costing billions of dollars annually in lost productivity.
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Seven years ago central government promised a solution, but the supernumeraries still use chairs, desks and telephones and they are costing close to a billion rands a year.
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For costing and accounting purposes it is usual for payments to be supported by a payment certificate or a standard format.
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It is costing an enormous amount of money to clean it up, which could be used on other things.
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He eventually settled on an unconverted 23m barge costing £28,000.
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We were asked to prepare detailed costings for the scheme.
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There is a bewildering array of light fittings costing from a few pounds each to a few hundred pounds.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1223
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Under Service Call buildings are fitted with a receiver costing ￡74 which is attached to a window.
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Illegals are costing us allot of money and you should reword them!!!
Administration targeting businesses who hire illegal immigrants
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We'll put together a proposal, including detailed costings, free of charge.
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In order to understand more clearly the effects that anticoagulant treatment was having on a patient's life, the patient was given a small disposable camera, costing around £5, and asked to take pictures.
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We had a problem in Europe which was that the labour market was inflexible and it was costing jobs.
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On such capital-intensive projects, any over-runs can rapidly push up the overall costings.
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On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for £2 5_s_. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for £1
Samuel Johnson
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The wedding bill will include gilt-edged invites, $300,000 floral displays and a 10-tier cake costing $10,000.
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The review has covered four main areas of work - wave resource modelling, capital costing, availability assessment and economic modelling.
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Costing £9.99, the cow moos and shakes uncontrollably when switched on.
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Major alterations costing huge sums had been made to the building to make it suitable for the regeneration scheme.
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- the idea of chargeback: if the IT manager is sufficiently au fait with who is using what, this offers the opportunity to at least tell different parts of the business how much its IT is costing, even if no money actually changes hands.
The Register
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It is costing 120 million to build and will be capable of processing 30,000 packages per hour at its peak.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scott's long narrative poem Marmion was published in late February 1808 as a luxurious quarto, costing a guinea and a half.
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On another occasion four wheel trims costing a total of £100 were stolen.
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Criminals are costing British businesses more than £1.3bn a year as traders live in fear of louts who steal from their shops, daub graffiti on their walls or subject them to intimidation.
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It's estimated that British businesses lose 40m days a year through sickies, costing employers a massive £11.5bn.
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The factory greatly wanted a flat-bottom iron steamer, a stern-wheeler, with sliding keel, and furnaces fit for burning half-dried wood — a craft of fourteen tons, costing perhaps £14 per ton, would be ample in point of size, and would save not a little money to the trader.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Original costings were based on 2001 figures, but have now been updated to take account of the 2003 revised estimates.
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He is not only insufferable but is also costing us licence-fee payers literally millions of pounds to employ.
Times, Sunday Times
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For instance, a new prosthesis costing twice as much as a current prosthesis but only leading, at best, to a 20% reduction in prosthetic failure would not justify a trial or licensing.
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The speedup on the docks was so intense that the accident rate shot up, costing the lives of five longshore workers in 2002.
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I recall accosting some rowdy teenagers outside my house: my few cautionary words were met with a hail of stones, too small to injure but enough to frighten and humiliate.
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We asked experts at Sotheby's for advice on what to do with them, because they were costing a lot of money in insurance and cleaning bills.
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Korjo and Design Go both make travel jugs, for plugging in to electrical sockets or car cigarette lighters, costing around $80.
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He noted Rep. McCollum's "focus on kids and health care" and other related domestic needs of her local constituents (mostly in St. Paul) as well as her defined roles accorded by her appointments to the prestigious and powerful House Appropriations Committee (budget and spending) and the Government Oversight and Reform Committee while also expressing fears that impeachment hearings would become a "mobilizer" for the Republican voter base, thus costing votes and maybe elections in 2008.
ImpeachforPeace.org lobbies Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) to support accountability and justice through impeachment
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It's costing them a lot of money to put their children through school.
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Chaucer lived he must have heard this very language, matter of fact, unmetaphorical, far better fitted for narrative than for analysis, capable of religious solemnity or of broad humour, but very stiff material to put on the lips of men and women accosting each other face to face.
The Common Reader
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But the arrangement, plus the cost of essential repairs and maintenance, means it is costing council tax payers £66,000 a year just to keep the building ticking over.
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This makes zero-based budgeting or even activity-based costing almost pointless from a budget officer's point of view, since so little of a district's funds are available for reallocation.
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In January 2001 three-quarters of their pavilion was burnt down, costing an estimated £200,000 to repair, and the metal shutters were graffitied just last week.
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Phone companies are alleged to have paid kickbacks in exchange for the licences, costing the taxpayer as much as 25 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The ad will air through Election Day, during morning and afternoon drive-time shows on news, sports and music stations, costing the union about $500,000.
Federal worker union blasts tea party in radio ad
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The slide to this position of realism and justice is costing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nearly half his cabinet.
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We'll need accurate costings before we can agree to fund the scheme.
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Sixty new buildings and skyscrapers costing over $700 million shot up on former rail yards and warehouse areas.
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We will then be able to present some options with costings.
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Speed up dull meetings by reminding participants just how much the talkfest is costing the company.
Times, Sunday Times
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The option is only one of the possible scenarios likely to be outlined, with full costings, by the consultants.
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The reinstatement was thorough, taking place over two years and costing much more than the original estimate.
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The noise of the traffic has forced residents to sleep at the back of their houses and install secondary glazing, costing hundreds of pounds.
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We have to recognise that not only is bullying ruining people's lives, it is costing the UK economy millions every year in tribunal payments, legal fees and wasted talent
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In flashes they can look brilliant, but too often a lack of focus and attitude is costing them.
The Sun
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As with most great money saving ideas, it looks like it could end up costing more in the long run.
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Target costing is a process of determining a maximum allowable cost for a product by subtracting a desired profit from the product's market price.
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This call is costing me a fortune, so don't waste my time and money denying this.
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But the new clientele is quite a bit younger: 3 - and 4-year-olds whose parents hope that a little assistance — costing upward of $1,000 for several sessions — will help them win coveted spots in the city’s gifted and talented public kindergarten classes.
K-12 w/ Higher Ed Implications
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Without the special licence couriers are restricted to delivering packets over 350g and costing more than 1 to post.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ten huis were held up and down the country, costing $131,000.
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But wrecking holidays and business flights, costing firms a fortune, cannot go unpunished.
The Sun
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He wonders what maintaining a constant police presence in the area is costing taxpayers.
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While it may work briefly, it destroys the incentive to innovate and ends up costing more and more in stagnation every year that it is implemented.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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As well as trying taxpayers' patience, the worsening gridlock is costing big money.
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Other companies are expected to follow and demands for repayment of claims — called "subrogation" in the insurance business — could end up costing Toyota from $20 million to $30 million, says Mark Bunim, an attorney with Closed Case, a mediation firm.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: April 12, 2010
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The numerous hare-brained schemes, such as ‘Capital of Culture’ status, costing millions of ratepayers' hard-earned cash, should be abandoned.
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The film bears favourable technical comparison with Hollywood productions costing 10 times as much.
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This is costing the taxpayer ￡10 billion a year.
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We'll put together a proposal, including detailed costings, free of charge.
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The figures suggest that it is not choice of career that is costing women but discrimination in the matter of lifestyle choice as they hit childbearing age.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is costing the taxpayer ￡10 billion a year.
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These fun, friendly tours are good value, with few costing more than £3.
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His product range has included wooden paper clips, rosewood humidors, ponyskin desk tidies and dining-room tables costing more than 50,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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Costing more reasonable use of the standard distribution cost, not only be more accurate costing, cost management has also brought innovation and organizational optimization.
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Suddenly, with $18.90 in shipping and handling fees, my $19.95 razor plus fogless mirror was costing $56.75.
The Consumerist: April 2007 Archives
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The question for EUA was whether full costing was a necessary tool.
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But while advocates often tout the inexpensiveness of coal, a new study reveals that the substance may be costing the U.S. up to $500 billion per year.
The True Cost Of Coal: $500 Billion Per Year
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Sarees costing lakhs of rupees and ornaments worth crores should be looked down upon by the society.
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(Note: not to be confused with La Posada Del Faro in José Ignacio which, costing up to £350, is not such a bargain.)
South America: Perfect posadas
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Years ago the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), reported that "A conservative estimate suggests that federal policies are costing states and localities about $185 billion over the four-year course of the state fiscal crisis.
Poll: New low for Pennsylvania's governor
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John had been injured and missed two meets, as well has having crashed and costing the team a healthy amount of time and money to repair his car.
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The unbearable weight of expectation and the sheer guilt of costing so much money.
Times, Sunday Times
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The research claimed that this could be costing the retail sector 3.8 billion a year in potential sales.
Times, Sunday Times
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A considerable sum of money has been identified to fund the work but final costings have yet to be confirmed.
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The disclosure came as City Controller Wendy Greuel issued an audit finding the photo enforcement program bypassed some of the city's most dangerous intersections and is costing the city more than $1 million a year to operate, despite fines and fees that can exceed $500.
Steve Parker: It's Official: "Red Light Cameras" Don't Work
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He was searched and a blue plastic imitation handgun costing £1.50 was found in his tracksuit pocket.
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Like the small dark cloud that foreruns a typhoon, the first act in the wild drama that came near to costing me my own life was so slight, so insignificant relatively, that no man of us then dreamed of the hidden forces that brought it to pass.
The Mutineers
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He took a sleekit decision, in secret, to raid pension funds, costing millions of Scots billions of pounds.
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He gets off the train any old place, trusting to luck, and goes around the platform accosting one person after another, each time mumbling the same syllables: bou bournous…
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The stimulus board screens reports using a small computer system, costing around $2 million a year and using off-the-shelf technology, to flag recipients of stimulus dollars who may have criminal convictions, lawsuits, tax liens, bankruptcies or suspension and debarment proceedings.
Rules Toughened for Entities Doing Business With Government
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Where there were six intendants of finance, each costing more than a million livres a year, Necker installed four salaried secretaries answering to him alone.
Robert Morris
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The fact that her second chance was costing her parents money spurred her on.
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Faster, safer, more economical and with a striking restyle, Subaru's new-look Impreza is now on sale, costing £19, 995 OTR for the WRX saloon.
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When he goes undercover, he discovers flaws in the fundraising operation that could be costing millions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the paperback titles cost £3 - £5, with hardbacks costing more.
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‘Speed could be worth a lot more to a client and we can give guaranteed costings,’ said one construction source.
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The advantage of standard costing is that it can apply to all stages in the production process.
Finance for the Non-Financial Manager
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Once Nottingham is refloated she will be towed into Portsmouth Naval Base, where repairs will be carried out by FSL, taking up to 18 months and costing £26 million.
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That's the cut-rate store where perfectly good clothes, shoes and toys inexplicably end up costing far less than originally intended.
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The company is to launch a sports utility vehicle costing 90,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first forcibly draws the reader's attention to the changing costing scene that has placed traditional costing systems in the dock.
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Back at the office I've got plans, elevations, provisional costings, everything.
FINAL RESORT
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I only know that it must be done by a special appraiser, is costing us about $850 dollars, and was requested by the Notario for a property we're buying.
Avaluo Bancario ?
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She also warns that meddling by ministers risks costing jobs and choking economic growth.
The Sun
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His overeagerness and aggressive driving style are costing him and his team points.
Times, Sunday Times
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I for one would certainly not begrudge a few pence more on the price of an abbot (over the costing for a spitfire).
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An estimated 6 million Captchas are completed each day, costing users 10 seconds each, wasting an overwhelming number of labor hours.
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Firefighting in the present round of fires is costing about $15 million a day.
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A portion of rentals on leased cars costing in excess of ￡12,000 is disallowed for tax purposes.
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Whitby has been waiting more than 30 years for a sports hall to supplement its ailing lido, which is currently costing Council Tax-payers £200,000 a year just to keep open.
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Despite a record harvest of 99.15 million tons last year, India has banned the export of rice, except in the case of premium varieties such as basmati rice costing $900 a ton and more.
India's rice-growing woes lift Thai, Vietnamese exports
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It is costing 120 million to build and will be capable of processing 30,000 packages per hour at its peak.
Times, Sunday Times
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DS games cost $20 to $40, on average, with PSP titles costing up to $50.
Shopping for a portable game machine? Check out the iPod Touch first | Sync Blog
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The 3.3 km road, costing £65 million, will bypass Blunsdon village by routing through fields to the west, before rejoining the current route of the A419 at the bottom of Blunsdon Hill.
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Back at the office I've got plans, elevations, provisional costings, everything.
FINAL RESORT
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Those heady days when six diners had a dinner costing 44,000 are long gone.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dozens of White House staffers are enjoying trips, some to luxurious destinations, without it costing them a penny.
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Ideally that will trigger something like a national "mindshare" project, producing citizen-created reports that could shed light on the events of the past and stimulate a broader debate about the future - without costing the government a penny.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Wall Street Empire Strikes Back
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So, if you prefer to be an old stick-in-the-mud, just remember that your devotion to a few financial suppliers is costing you the best part of £3,000 every year.
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Here in Europe we mostly get softcover books costing only a small part of what is charged in USA, many of my books have a "not for sale in USA" in them.
Boing Boing
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If she is worried about a small group of people holding up progress and costing York taxpayers money, then perhaps she might like to direct her comments to the Lib Dem council, a group set to get very much smaller after 2007.
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We are able to handle variety type of cargoes and we provide the most comprehensive truckage routing and costing programs to suit your needs.
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But for a development that must be costing squillions of renminbi, we're wondering why they didn't fork out an extra 100 kuai for a better translation of their PR spiel.
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Three previous trials had collapsed amid fears of jury tampering, costing the taxpayer a total of 22million.
Times, Sunday Times
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His arm in delivery stride seems shortened, as a probable result of the phobia of hitting the stumps, costing him pace and accuracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was at the same hole that McGinley bunkered his approach in the BMW PGA Championship final round, the resultant bogey costing him that title.
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A walnut chest-on-chest costing 300 in 1968 was worth 8,000 20 years later.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the idiot who has everything comes the latest in unbridled extravagance: fashion house Christian Dior is set this month to launch of line of luxury cellphones costing a ridiculous amount of money.
The $26,000 "My Dior" Cellphone - The Consumerist
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Equipped with transistors instead of valves, it could be operated for 80 hours on four hearing aid batteries, costing 2s 6d each.
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Sketchley requires you to hold 300 ordinary shares, costing about ￡3.71 each, to qualify for its discount.
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On March 27 a one day course on Manual Payroll is planned and on April 10 you can attend a one day course on pricing and costing techniques.
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So a home costing 250,000 attracts 1% duty, equalling 2,500.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two years ago we planted oba/shiso and got a huge crop; with 10 leaves costing 80 to 100 yen per pack, and us going through up to 50 per week, 200 yen for a seedling from the garden centre is a wonderful bargain.
Two in five Japanese have a garden
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If you are self-catering, best cuts of lamb cost about £5 a pound with lovely fresh salmon and haddock fillets costing about £2 per pound.
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These insect swarms cause massive crop losses across the southern and central United States, costing billions of dollars annually.
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It's costing them a lot of money to put their children through school.
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There are always plain upholstered vintage sofas at the fair, costing from about 1,750.
Times, Sunday Times
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So tonight Mr Speaker, what we have been led to believe and what those newspapers will demand is the income tax thresholds, the rates, the costings and how they will be paid for.
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A project costing £498,000 to restore the grade two listed railway station and repair the original cast iron canopies on the station roof was under way.
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The research claimed that this could be costing the retail sector 3.8 billion a year in potential sales.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely these properties, some of them costing millions of pounds, should have the security of commonhold tenure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ideal as a watchdog, this dog will neither be aggressive nor cringe with fear on accosting a stranger.
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The menu features $4 to $6 appetizers, with soups and salads costing as little as $3 to $8.
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LONDON - A study has found that pet dogs can cost a huge amount of money, like the whippet, which is the most expensive breed of dog, costing its owner a staggering 66,000 pounds in its lifetime.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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Suppose motorists have to pay $3 a litre for their petrol, with a 50-litre tankful costing $150.
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Other sectors to have suffered include regional tourism with avgas (aviation gas) and avtur fuels costing more than US $100 a barrel.
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We were asked to prepare detailed costings for the scheme.
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Then flog unwanted items so you can buy it without it actually costing you money.
The Sun
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Botched handiwork by incompetent tradesmen is costing Britons millions of pounds, a new survey claims today.
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Each member of emergency staff will be fitted for the uniform, with a full set of several shirts, pairs of trousers, shoes and socks costing £400.
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The project involves a new marina costing more than 30 million.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three previous trials had collapsed amid fears of jury tampering, costing the taxpayer a total of 22million.
Times, Sunday Times
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They measure how much energy you are using and how much it's costing in near real time.
The Sun
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The film bears favourable technical comparison with Hollywood productions costing 10 times as much.
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It's costing them a lot of money to put their children through school.
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On accosting a prey, tarantulas paralyse it by sinking the fangs and injecting venom.
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Why are parasite lawyers opening old wounds and costing the country millions in legal fees?
The Sun
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He filled the injury down-time by buying a racehorse, Leitrim Rock, then selling it 18 months ago - ‘It was no good, and costing too much’ - and replacing it with £600-worth of bull mastiff named Winny.
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It also says the human toll of suffering and health damage must be built into future costings.
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In replicated trials, the hybrid was also resistant to Colorado potato beetle, an insect costing U.S. potato, tomato, and eggplant growers about $150 million annually.
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An agency set up to target leading underworld figures is costing four times more to run than it recovers, figures will show today.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's incredibly good value for money, costing less than a pupil referral unit.
Times, Sunday Times
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But my children did break out with the eldest boy taking his first tentative swing with a golf club in a coaching lesson costing £7 for an hour.
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It splashed down well short, costing him a double bogey.
The Sun
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No more worrying about unpaid tax or overdue rent or the forms on the kitchen table for school trips costing hundreds of pounds we don't have.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since I have configured my computer with several of these programs, I cannot remember the last time that I have had to suffer the slowdown in bandwith due to popups and ads which were costing me money.
Orchestrated Ads
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The final three phases, costing a total of $ 140 million, will follow if federal funding is available.
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He says that their current ad campaign is costing a five-figure sum.
