Sentence examples for calls expensive from inspiring English sources

The challenge for Spotify is how to build its subscriber rolls without giving away too much of what the report calls "expensive free music".

Several groups abroad offered internet access through the terrestrial phone system to Egyptians who could afford to dial in with old-fashioned modems, though the service was slow and the calls expensive.

At Inside Housing, Jules Birch observes that no definition of "high value" is provided, but that the inspiration for this idea is plainly Policy Exchange's argument for flogging heaps the stuff its calls "expensive" when it becomes vacant in order to build more in poor areas.

The $10 million price to build Greenbelt was also called expensive.

"You take Linux and run WebSphere on top of it -- that's called expensive," Mr. Gates said.

Brains are what biologists call expensive items: the human brain at rest consumes 20% of the daily calorific intake.

He said the reason for these seats, which he called "expensive," was "competition for the out-of-home entertainment dollar".

*** Watch the charges if you call your favourite TV show - the cost of calling expensive phone numbers such as 084, 087, 118 or 09 is rising dramatically.

He puts the total, worldwide McDonald's sponsorship and ad expenditures at "easily more than $100 million" for the Sydney Olympics, a sum he called "expensive and high risk".

Dr. Fabrice Gaudot, an orthopedist with a private practice in Paris, said that his clinic treated a lot of foreigners and that the total price for a hip replacement was about $13,000, which he called expensive by French standards.

At £95 it's what Grazia would call an investment piece (or FS would call expensive) and you might want to try out wearing the new lengths (knee-length and midi) before you decide it's for you.