Sentence examples for cost statues from inspiring English sources

Full-size statues of gold and ivory were rare at all times because of their cost; statues with gilded wooden bodies and marble extremities were sometimes made instead.

During his return voyage to the United States, Turck "began to feel guilty about the great cost of the statue" and decided to keep the purchase hidden from his wife by storing the statue in the basement of his New York City laboratory at 428 Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan.

Nobody knows what the statue cost.

The original statue cost $5,500.

Total cost for a statue, which Weber estimated at $90,000 to $150,000 for life-size renditions, rises exponentially with each additional inch.

Most visitors thank him, with many gladly making donations to underwrite the cost of the statue restorations.

The £110,000 cost of the statue was raised over four years from Czech business and private donations by the Churchill Statue Foundation.

He said New Jersey Transit, which had recently imposed the first fare increases in more than a decade, could not afford the $250,000 cost of the statue.

The statue cost £10,000 and some people think the money could have been better spent.

The statues, costing more than £20,000, aim to commemorate the restoration of the park's lake.

The cost of the statue puts the city in debt.