The phrase "almost the same costs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two or more items that have similar expenses or pricing.
Example: "The two suppliers offer almost the same costs for their services, making it difficult to choose between them."
Alternatives: "nearly identical costs" or "similar costs".
For a minimum investment of $500 – "by coincidence it's almost the same cost as one of our watches," Tarantino says – you can get a Martenero "crowd note," an IOU that could be converted to stock if the company is eventually bought or taken public.
In testing, the concentrated solar technology proved to be up to five times more cost effective than standard flat photovoltaic silicon panels, which would make it almost the same cost as oil and natural gas.
This means that a very poor country will still have almost the same cost of consumables whereas the personnel cost will be much lower than for richer countries.
We can see for instance that any choice of first change-point location between 1 and 2000 yields almost the same cost (the minimum is obtained for t=1481), and thus the optimal segmentation is not clearly better than the next best segmentations.
NEEDS should probably be bought new, but there's no reason to buy a designer coat when a regular one that looks almost exactly the same costs $200 less.
No other bank or private equity player could make the same cost savings, and almost none enjoyed the same funding advantages.
Fleur put on a surprisingly elegant pendant with white feathers ($10.80) and absent-mindedly began walking around the store while overhead speakers quietly spit out songs by Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors — or perhaps, by Chinese and Vietnamese bands that sound almost the same but cost a lot less.
As a result, the proposed efficient combination method achieved a relative error reduction of 87.5% compared with the baseline, and 44.8% compared with reverberant speech models, for almost the same computational cost.
