Sentence examples for it was too dear from inspiring English sources

"If it had been the Labor party who stopped NBN at Armidale and said it was too dear to go to Tamworth or Barraba, we would have been outraged," said Windsor.

"It is too dear a price to pay for our country".

And whether you think it is too dear or not, there is no denying that it is a product with a history as rich as the people who quaff it.

But even in 2001 it reckoned that at $2 a hectare Ngoyla-Mintom was too dear.

Speaking to reporters before the meeting, she said she was "leaving the Knesset at this point, but I'm not retiring from public life", adding that Israel was "too dear" to her. "I was by Ariel Sharon's side on the day it was decided to form Kadima.

The effect was less stuffy than dear, and that was his problem; he was too dear, too kind.

When the market soured dramatically RBS was slow to respond, believing that the investor reaction was overdone and that the cost of hedging against further losses was too dear.

After failing to get letters out using messengers ("A man's life was too dear a price to pay even for success" explained Robinson in a later report), and unable to get through the Prussian lines himself, Robinson decided "I must try the air".

I love you!" Batistuta brought his impeccable timing and relentlessness to Rome's Roma this season, where some feared that his huge salary was too dear for an aging player with nagging injuries.

At the start of his voyage, Carlin had said he would not travel to Australia or New Zealand, because petrol was "too dear" there.

But it may be too dear for this purpose.