Sentence examples for proved cheaper than from inspiring English sources

Despite soaring fuel prices, travelling by car proved cheaper than taking the train on 16 of the 50 journeys.

Later, dredgers and steam shovels operated by European labourers took over, and, as dredging proved cheaper than dry excavation, the terrain was artificially flooded and dredged wherever possible.

The designs are new, they say, and costs will fall as more are built; in Asia reactors built at the end of a batch have proved cheaper than earlier ones.

Options being considered include pairing a clean energy target with a second program that could help fund a HELE coal plant if it proved cheaper than other comparable forms of power, or creatively designing the clean energy target (and the definition of "clean") so that it offers new coal the same incentive as, say, a solar farm.

This produced a smoother track and the whole assembly proved cheaper than using conventional sleepers for broad-gauge track, although this advantage was lost with standard- or mixed-gauge lines because of the higher ratio of timber to length of line.

In some places floating wind farms could prove cheaper than fixed foundations.

This could prove cheaper than offering multibillion-pound rewards for producing new drugs that meet a defined need, said O'Neill.

But the Hiawatha is a example of how, given the proper planning, light rail can do more than just succeed it can prove cheaper than buses.

Dr Lechner reckons a carbon-fibre container would need to travel only 120,000km (three times around the Earth) to prove cheaper than its steel equivalent.

As my hair is so thick, it may not even prove cheaper than the £2,000 required for six laser sessions on my face, chest and torso.

Although the approach has only been demonstrated at a small scale, it could prove cheaper than existing transportation methods, he says.