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Meanings of very costly in English

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Usage of very costly in English
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The chronic nature along with associated complications makes the disease very costly.
Pubmed
2
Sometimes the ornaments are of gold instead of silver, and very costly.
Letters from High Latitudes / Being Some Account of a Voyage in ...
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Costly for residents The flood waters can prove very costly for residents.
Radio NZ
4
They are floor-to-ceiling units so this is going to be very costly.
The Irish Times
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Their weapons were richly mounted and very costly, as were their equipments.
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
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Colors were very costly, and the young painter's palette was almost bare.
The Unknown Masterpiece / 1845
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Even a few casses a year is a very costly exercise.
Wired
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It had been in all the exhibitions, and was very costly and magnificent.
The Small House at Allington
9
Alcoholism is a debilitating disorder for the individual and very costly for society.
Pubmed
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The steel dies for this purpose form a very costly stock in trade.
Rides on Railways
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Those misses proved very costly when their lead evaporated in the closing moments.
The Guardian
12
It can be very costly to discover this in late August.
The Irish Times
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The furniture is very costly, and reminds one of the parvenu.
Old Fritz and the New Era
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I find it very costly, having been in this profession for 34 years.
Reuters
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It may be very beautiful and very costly, but I find it unsightly.
Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon
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It's actually very , very costly to release films at the cinema.
Ebony
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