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Discover LudwigThe phrase "cheap version" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a less expensive alternative to a certain product or item. Example: "I couldn't afford the designer dress, so I bought a cheap version from a discount store." Another example: "The store offers a cheap version of the popular smartphone for budget-conscious consumers."
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About 50% of them either couldn't tell the difference or preferred the cheap version".
(May 2013) A fast and cheap version of Wi-Fi is coming (Jan 2012).
They think that we humanitarians are the cheap version of what they should be getting.
David thought it had notes of caramel, but a cheap version, "Cadbury's caramel", he concluded.
But retailers know that people will sometimes turn their noses up at a cheap version of a more expensive item, even if the two are essentially the same.
Notably, the Lumia 920 does feature in second place in many countries (top in Germany) - but it's the cheap version which does best.
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The United States didn't say that developing countries could never get access to cheap versions of American drugs.
Insulin does not have to be expensive – there are cheap versions which are just as good, Krug told the Guardian.
Argentina, like India and Thailand, had a robust generic drug industry making cheap versions of medicines invented in north America or Europe.
The most readily available natural choice is chicken manure pellets; cheap versions tend to be full of battery hens' crap.
But in the following two decades General Motors tried to fight lower-priced imports with cheap versions of the old standard.
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