The basic costs of apples are likely to be greater than those of statins; however, NHS prescription prices and convenience may drive people to purchase their apples from a store rather than through a pharmacy, thereby reducing direct NHS costs, or the NHS may be able to negotiate apple price freezes (although defrosted apples may not be so palatable).
The basic costs of living are comically high, public transportation is woefully inadequate, and most public schools can't afford rudimentary arts programs.
People's ability to afford food was recently found to be near a three-year low, and their ability to cover the basic costs of living is currently worse than at any time since the start of 2008.
The call – for an income based on the amount an individual needs to earn to cover the basic costs of living – was, he said, an idea whose time had come.
Read a couple of paragraphs into the press release and you'll see that Yun "cautions against interpreting price data," since prices remain flat, more distressed sales occurred last year than this year, and homes in some areas are priced lower than "replacement costs" – i.e. the basic costs of the materials they are built with.
Furthermore, the absolute amount of additional funds needed would be relatively small compared with what is currently being spent on HIV treatment, with the basic costs of developing the individual agents already being covered by the originator companies.
The UK "living wage" - an hourly rate based on the amount needed to cover the basic costs of living - has been raised by 20p to £7.85.
Because the staff are unpaid, the basic costs of running the site - webhosting, bandwidth and phone charges - are low, especially by most IT project standards.
One common example is the basic costs of spinning up the IaaS/PaaS elements of what you do — creating accounts, allocating minimal resources, other infrastructure, and then subsequent usage.
David Ward, the CEO of Customatix.com, says that his basic costs are $40 per pair of shoes, plus an $8 import duty and a pricey UPS charge for delivery to the U.S.
