Sentence examples for had been cheap from inspiring English sources

It had been cheap, because that part of Brooklyn was squalid then, and the building's condition was laughable.

One of the men claimed to be Darnell's cousin, and, to prove it to her, when he knocked at the door that night he showed her a Polaroid of him and Darnell at a club, their arms around each other and their eyes red, because the camera had been cheap and the picture cost only two dollars.

For most governments, financing during the previous decade had been cheap.

"Can't have been cheap".

Coal has been cheap.

Natural gas has been cheap.

The 1970s aside, oil has been cheap.

But talk has been cheap in recent weeks.

And we would have been cheap at the price.

"Water in California has been cheap and plentiful.

HCA's shares have been cheap of late.