Sentence examples for like a cost from inspiring English sources

Some of the balance goes to cover the cost of replacing roofs and elevators and the like, a cost Wells largely avoids by signing tenants to triple net leases in which they cover operating costs.

For most of them, an investment in digital health records looks like a cost for which they are not reimbursed.

Now, with post-recession consumers still frugal and P. & G.'s size looking more like a cost than like a benefit, Lafley has been forced to dismantle the empire he built.

"The bus subsidy might seem like a cost that's easy to do away with, but it has some profound consequences, one of which is a destabilisation of the rural demographic".

Thus, if government assigns taxes to raw materials and final products, it acts like a profit element; and if government assigns subsidies to raw materials and final products, it acts like a cost element.

It might seem like a cost savings, but when you look at the total costs, it might not be".

My raise every year is like a cost-of-living raise.

"It certainly didn't look like a cost-free decision when Saddam Hussein's statue was being pulled down in Baghdad," Mr. Obama said in an interview.

By that time, said Jeanne Fox, regional E.P.A. administrator, the extent of the contamination had been found to be greater than originally thought, and excavation and removal looked more like a cost-efficient and necessary option.

MCA is used when a single criterion decision analysis approach like a cost-benefit analysis is insufficient.

Those details add up to prices as high as $300,000 along with an extra $10,000 or so a month in bandwidth costs, enough to make telepresence rooms seem less like a cost-cutting measure and more like a World's Fair exhibition.