And I don't, for a minute, mean to trivialise the whole issue of sexual abuse of children by some cheap comparison with public transport.
Biomass, geothermal, hydropower and onshore wind are all competitive or cheaper in comparison with coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices.
MIPs are increasingly often used as packing for chromatography columns and adsorbents in solid-phase extractions as a relatively cheaper (in comparison with immunosorbents, for example) option that result in higher selectivity than traditional packing [ 21– 27].
American officials in Beijing also raised the issue of China's efforts to keep its currency, the renminbi, cheap in comparison with the dollar — making its goods relatively cheap and American goods relatively expensive.
But the delivery charges aren't cheap by comparison with UK supermarkets.
"Shadow (Red)," from 1978, for example, looked cheap by comparison with some of the others, with an estimate of only $700,000 to $900,000.
As a way of sustaining the royal image, paintings were remarkably cheap by comparison with the other accoutrements of regal magnificence, such as jewellery, gold plate and tapestries.
Though fares are cheap in comparison with western cab prices, they are too expensive for all but the wealthiest of Indians to use regularly.
Smartphones are especially expensive in Japan, where customers pay among the highest prices in the developed world, but flip-phones are cheap in comparison with many other places.
