Sentence examples for growing expensive from inspiring English sources

Water, it is said, is the new oil: a resource long squandered, now growing expensive and soon to be overwhelmed by insatiable demand.

I took advice from Guardian commenters Suffolkbumpkin and Kezia10 who recommended growing expensive produce such as pak choi, peppers and rainbow chard.

That has led some investment advisers to express concern that big dividend payers have grown expensive to the point of being risky.

But the academy's programs also grew expensive, and when the recession cramped fund-raising efforts Mr. Wadsworth clashed with the board over how to reconcile costs and revenues.

Meanwhile, the workforce in neighbouring Thailand, a manufacturing powerhouse, is ageing and growing more expensive.

In exchange, Clear Channel will receive a favorable rate in the growing but expensive world of online streaming.

But with the city growing increasingly expensive and many theater artists forced to become more pragmatic, that attitude has changed.

Meanwhile, elections are growing increasingly expensive, but few countries have grappled effectively with campaign financing.Despite all the problems, however, democracy is steadily "putting down roots" in Latin America, as Mr Cardoso has said.

In April, Microsoft announced that it would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Barnes & Noble's Nook division, valuing the unit at $1.7 billion and giving Barnes & Noble a much-needed lift for its growing but expensive digital business.

Thailand still has comparatively good infrastructure and low corporate taxes.But it also has a workforce that is aging quickly, and growing more expensive: from 2011 to 2013 wages rose by more than 30%.

"But it's progressively growing more expensive" to borrow for millions of consumers whose aggregate personal savings rate, as a proportion of disposable income, has dwindled to virtually nothing, he said.