Sentence examples for astronomical fare from inspiring English sources

Some of the UK's biggest train operators are being accused of "astronomical" fare rises, as a result of extending peak-time hours.

Most still charge astronomical fares for walk-up tickets -- a holdover from the dot-com boom, when businesspeople would pay almost anything for a last-minute flight.

He added that JetBlue could carve out its own niche by working to woo the many business travelers who are disenchanted with the astronomical fares of the full-service carriers but hesitate to dive into the perceived "cattle car" experience of Southwest.

If you don't book your airline ticket until the last moment, the fare can be astronomical.

To have come close is to have come closer than any space-faring outfit to making launch costs less, as it were, astronomical.

The astronomical societies may be as lively as ever, but youngsters nowadays tinker with computers, micro-controllers, robots and other digital fare rather than telescopes.

At the height of the Internet boom, airlines could get away with charging "astronomical" business-class fares, he said, but now they have to cram people in to make flights profitable.

"Their growth is astronomical.

It's astronomical".

"Those are astronomical numbers.

Rents are astronomical.