Sentence examples for process was expensive from inspiring English sources

Although the process was expensive, it opened up more commercial and black-market opportunities.

The process was expensive and slow; most ships spent much more time tied up than plying the seas.

That process was expensive in time (we did most of it as volunteers), but was an absolutely essential process for building trust and commitment.

The process was expensive and dented 2009 results: net profit plunged to 385 million from 1.3 billion a year earlier, and consolidated net sales slipped about 1 billion, to 86 billion.

"If there was no Web," she said, "how would I have found them and gotten in touch?" Before the Internet, she said, Chinese students would search through photocopies of outdated American guidebooks and send letters to some colleges, but the process was expensive and it took weeks, if not months, to get a reply.

And the process is expensive.

The election process is expensive and incumbents generally win.

But the process is expensive and complex, requiring high temperatures and intense pressure.

Existing desalination technology requires a substantial amount of energy, and so the process is expensive.

Some cities close to salty aquifers are looking toward desalination; Odessa is aggressively pursuing this, although the process is expensive.

The process is expensive and the proceedings so drawn out that most defendants try to strike some kind of plea bargain.