It is too expensive.

It's very expensive.

It would do a lot of good, but it's also very, very costly.

Investigating the causes of cancer is very expensive.

The coffee he drank was quite expensive.

There's often too many people in the meetings, and they're very, very expensive to the organization.

It can be expensive.

That suit looks expensive.

That keyboard is expensive.

Everything is getting expensive.

As the staff of such companies are often highly specialised and trained, it is not usually possible to replace them, or it would be costly or highly disruptive to do so.

She picked out the most expensive dress.

So a tremendous fund of knowledge despite, again, that so many people told her not to do it, it was too expensive.

That watch is less expensive than this one.

It's a difficult and expensive commodity, until now.

An expensive car is a status symbol.

It seems that Tony bought an expensive car.

The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.

I sat at my desk. I used my expensive computer.

And so, as a child, I saw jam disappear from the breakfast table, then margarine disappeared, then bread became too expensive, then milk became rationed.

And it's just about a full time job trying to prevent people who are scared of these ideas from caricaturing them and then running off to one dire purpose or another.

AIDS is the same kind of thing. It's costly to avoid AIDS.

And treatment is much, much more expensive than prevention.

And it takes even more effort to try to fight this system from within.

It was too expensive to have decentralized social production, to have decentralized action in society. That was not about society itself.

It's too slow to get a picture of conditions on the ground before they change, too expensive to implement in all the places that require testing.

Maybe you've had grand plans before but stopped yourself, thinking, That's impossible, or, That costs too much, or, That won't benefit me.

MT It's a great idea it was a huge project. Expensive, too.

The baritone sax that Tom wanted to buy was way too expensive for him.

Now you can imagine that if nectar is such a valuable thing and expensive for the plant to produce and it attracts lots of pollinators, then, just as in human sex, people might start to deceive.

But nuclear weapons, unusable and extremely expensive to maintain, are low hanging fruit a risk that we can easily grasp and eliminate.

And measuring turns out to be much harder than one might expect.

The old story about climate protection is that it's costly, or it would have been done already.

And it's not all that reliable, and it's costly, and it's time consuming.

It takes so much more effort to understand the injustice when context is not easily accessible to you.

Hosting a huge financial center, with outsize domestic banks, can be costly to taxpayers.

Even this modest aim will prove costly, because the Islamic State is also becoming stronger.

If we wait 10 years, it is 15 percent per year extremely difficult and expensive, perhaps impossible.

They put me through five weeks of tests very expensive, very scary before the nurse finally notices the piece of the paper, my meds list that I've been carrying to every single appointment, and says, Oh my gosh.

Most costly of all, perhaps, will be the damage to the company s reputation.

35 this method appears the least costly one to implement

It is less disruptive and much less expensive to maintain potential asylum seekers in or close to their present location.

However, he also says The process is extremely expensive and takes a lot of time, money and nerves.

The second storm, rolling in from the EU s east, is the costly military conflict in Ukraine s Donbas region.

And gathering data in countries where none has yet been collected will likely prove even costlier.