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Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

The studio took him at his word and jumped at the chance to close down, or at least reduce, his costly operation.

Is she too hawkish for the activists who helped make her vote for the Iraq War so costly back in the 2008 campaign?

Governor Bobby Jindal insists it would be too costly for the state, whose share would total nearly $2 billion over 10 years.

The drawback was that the terrain in front of Bradley made success very costly.

And the absence of paper and so forth, rendering notebooks costly and rare, made a large amount of memorizing necessary.

Not one of the early electric actions proved either quick or reliable, and all were costly to install and maintain.

This sum probably included the costly buildings required for the beam-engines, which Trevithick's plan dispensed with.

In Europe they are made of the most costly materials, and studded with the rarest gems.

In Parliament, where of course the old costly fashions have long been out of vogue, the change is equally noticeable.