Sentence examples for expensive amount from inspiring English sources

Ninety seconds is an expensive amount of time on television, though, so more marketers are eyeing quick hits.

The vendor knows you likely won't pick the least expensive amount — only cheapskates would do that.

That can be difficult to coordinate -- and expensive, amounting to thousands of dollars a child over a summer.

"Special education can be immensely expensive, amounting to tens of billions of dollars annually and as much as 20percentt of public schools' general operating budgets," Justice Souter wrote.

"I went through the divorce, the custody situation... the work was very expensive to create and it took longer than we anticipated so works were placed at less expensive amounts than what it cost even to produce".

Renewable energy sources like wind power and solar energy produce smaller and more expensive amounts of electricity than plants using traditional fuels, but renewable energy sources generate a tiny fraction of the carbon dioxide and gases that are believed to accelerate global warming.

We spend expensive amounts of time evaluating the fundamentals of the companies we own.

The extra dollars for appetizers and entrees at more expensive restaurants amount in some sense to a rental charge for a table that's guaranteed and that can be occupied longer.

Some advocates of the legislation worry that the Corker-Hoeven plan to enhance border security would be too expensive and amount to a militarization of the country's southern border.

"But even the best reverse mortgages are expensive, the amount of equity that can be paid out is limited, and the risk of interest rate fluctuations reducing what heirs can inherit is sometimes greater than disclosed," said Conrad Kuiken Jr., a Realtor and mortgage broker in Carlsbad, Calif.

If the company intends on spending a firm chunk of its raise on marketing in the United States, a media market that can skew expensive, the amount it will retain to grow its team will be modest.