Sentence examples for close to the cost from inspiring English sources

But with the ELX costing £19,500 that's perilously close to the cost of some better and more refined competitors.

"Over and over again," she testified, "Memorial Sloan-Kettering was not being reimbursed at an amount that was anywhere close to the cost of their services".

Officials have yet to finalise the budget, but the draft figure of 29 billion reais ($14.4 billion) is close to the cost of the London games.

Mexico pledged, when it first set the rules for long-distance competition, to promptly bring those rates down, close to the cost of providing the service.

You quite reasonably assumed that the refund promised by KLM staff would be half, or close to, the cost of a return fare, less the cancellation fee.

"This puts the total cost of Catalonia's one-year debt well above that of Germany and Spain and close to the cost of longer-term financing for Greece — and that's certainly a terrible deal for taxpayers".

He finally offered up the fact that even the full tuition charges do not come close to the costs for each student of running a college like Amherst.

These expected benefits are close to the costs of the policy.21.21

Moreover, with our approach, drivers' costs remained close to the costs obtained with fixed pricing, and a higher variability on the drivers' preference yielded better performance for the drivers.

In our experiments, drivers' costs obtained with road pricing via reinforcement learning remained close to the costs obtained with fixed pricing and a higher variability on the drivers' preference yielded better performance for the drivers.

Such a sensitivity analysis is more important for patients who are close to the cost-benefit border.