Sentence examples for disaster cost from inspiring English sources
The investigation into the cause of the Flight 800 disaster cost millions of dollars.
The natural disaster cost the company tons of production, although that was mostly offset by a rise in coal prices on fears it would become scarce.
The disaster cost the city £20m and people were still living in emergency accommodation more than a year later Yet Hull is not alone.
E.ON said the forced shutdown of some of its atomic reactors in Germany in the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster cost the company 2.5 billion euros (£2.1 billion).
The emissions scandal has already wiped tens of billions of euros off VW's share price, and analysts have warned that the total cost of the scandal could be as high as €78bn, which would be 60% more than the Deepwater Horizon disaster cost BP.
Marsh said the disaster cost the firm $173 million in the quarter, including $55 million spent on benefits for victims' families, $57 million for write-offs and disrupted operations, and $61 million for laying off staff at Marsh's Mercer Consulting unit, which experienced a steep decline in business after Sept. 11.
They proposed "$5 billion per year for disaster costs".
It is a grave matter, intones the Daily Mail: perhaps his libido distracted him as he led the Royal Bank of Scotland to disaster, costing the taxpayer billions.
A natural disaster costing 7,000 lives in Baltimore would summon furious demands from the public to take action, he tells audiences.
BP took a $5.2bn charge related to Deepwater in the second quarter, with the disaster costing the group a total of $61.6bn.
In his research he's drawn similar conclusions to those in his FiveThirtyEight post, arguing that rising disaster costs can be explained by growing population and wealth.
