Sentence examples for an expensive bit from inspiring English sources

But it turns out that can be an expensive bit of good luck.

Thanks to an expensive bit of forward planning, their temporary home now has running water, electricity and proper drainage.

Depending on whom you believe, the bill is either an expensive bit of political pandering or a long-overdue recognition of sick heroes.

This is an expensive bit of backpacking equipment that may seem like a gimmick when you look at it in a camping store but is worth every penny.

After that mystery is resolved, an amusing series of mistaken identities and the passing around of an expensive bit of artwork keep the story gliding toward its soft landing.

GO FOR a walk in Chelsea, an expensive bit of London, and you may stroll by the Coldstream Guards' barracks, now the property of the government of Qatar; a branch of the venerable Barclays bank, soon to be part-owned by the People's Republic of China; and then buy a picnic at Sainsbury's, Britain's oldest supermarket, which the Anglophile Qataris are trying to buy too.

Our economics editor described this as a "very expensive bit of protection".

A camera company hung a trivial but expensive bit of advert-babble on him that said, "Image is everything".

KHATCHADOURIAN: In normal circumstances, smashing to bits an expensive vessel of that kind would be a bad thing.

A bit of an expensive way to do it, yes, I admit, but effective nonetheless.

Cartridges are expensive, a bit of a rip-off.