Sentence examples for about as expensive from inspiring English sources
"about as expensive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to talk about two items that are comparably priced or of equal expense. For example, "The new car model is about as expensive as the last one."
They are normally about as expensive as diamonds, too.
Eating real meat in 2035 could be as morally questionable as eating foie gras – and about as expensive.
The T60 Widescreen with ABGN Wireless starts at $1,073 and can be made about as expensive as you could possibly want it to be.
At $31.99 for a 375-milliliter bottle, Frantoio Grove is about as expensive as California oils get, but it's a can't miss.
They were as large (32 by 24 inches) and just about as expensive as small paintings and were marketed as dining room decorations.
Compared to its industry, Dell isn't as profitable but is just about as expensive relative to its expected earnings power.
Today, stocks are only about half as expensive, based on their price-to-earnings ratios.
Atlantis will spend £40m installing its first four turbines; the electricity they produce will be about twice as expensive as juice from offshore wind farms and roughly six times pricier than the wholesale price of power.
"On occasion he would come into the office with a couple of trays of food from a deli," he said, "and we would go out and buy Arturo Fuente cigars, which are about twice as expensive".
At a cost of 7.4p a note, the new fiver is about twice as expensive to produce as the paper note but will cost less over time according to the Bank because it will last on average around five years – two-and-a-half times longer.
Note, however, that the special RAM required for current Pentium 4 machines is about twice as expensive as what's used on earlier models.
