Sentence examples for expensive to import from inspiring English sources

It was too expensive to import them from London.

Yak is too expensive to import, so there's a lot of beef on the menu.

The fall in the pound meant the screens were around 20% more expensive to import from China.

This meant it became more expensive to import goods, and in an import-dependent economy this was catastrophic.

That would have made it more difficult and expensive to import sugar to make up for any shortfall of American production.

Chereau's absence locally has been in part a problem of scale; his landmark opera productions, notably a 1976 "Ring," would have been too expensive to import.

Mr. Shilin, meanwhile, found less expensive clothes to import, produced at factories outside the United States.

Back in 2003, American natural gas fields were thought to be drying up and energy entrepreneurs were beginning to invest in hugely expensive terminals to import gas, not export it.

A falling rupee is a concern because it is a signal of weakness to the external world, and a weaker currency makes it more expensive to buy imported goods like oil, which in turn aggravates the problem of inflation.

Because of an intense brain drain in Albania, he added, the company had to import expensive engineers from Italy.

In the aftermath of the 2011 revolution, a steep devaluation in the Egyptian pound, and the lack of hard currency, makes it more difficult to import expensive drugs because the law requires them to be resold at a fixed price.