Sentence examples for an expensive component from inspiring English sources

Some of the batteries are already being tested by automobile companies, he said, but scientists are working on reducing even more their need for platinum, an expensive component.

There is a view in the world of housing economics, one that influences Khan's policy, that taking a hard line on affordability exerts downward pressure on the price of land - an expensive component of any new development.

And a six-inch touchscreen (likely capacitive) is an expensive component.

Sourcing technical support can be an expensive component of simulation business plans.

But the return on Apple's investment in an expensive component is that everyone who touches an Apple trackpad falls in love with it immediately.

Ground heat exchangers installed in boreholes are an expensive component of a ground-coupled heat pump system, where minimizing the borehole length with appropriate materials and configuration can reduce the overall cost of the system.

The required mass of beads for the volume required make the media a relatively expensive component of a floating bead filter in contrast to sand or microbead media that is much less expensive on a per volume basis.

Heat pads can be a more expensive component of the gecko habitat; one suited for a ten gallon cage can be as much as $25.

But there is a more expensive component.

And its wireless chip, at $40, is "a pretty expensive component to put into something you're trying to sell for $200 to $300," says Forrester analyst Ted Schadler.

Nucleosome remodeling may be a particularly expensive component of gene expression, as the sensitivity of global transcription rates to ATP levels is alleviated when chromatin is experimentally de-condensed in cells [ 39].