Sentence examples for reported costly from inspiring English sources

Owners reported costly repairs or replacements of the transmissions.

Valley liquor accord's chairman, Nick Braban, has reported a costly revenue drop while patronage has suffered a major decrease since the laws came into effect on 1 July.

Synthetic anti-obesity drugs have been reported to be costly, and some of them also beset with undesirable side effects.

Mating is reported to be costly to females, and females may be reluctant to re-mate (Kokko et al. 2003).

However, the avoidance of re-mating has also been reported to be costly for females (Rowe et al. 1994; Watson et al. 1998).

Regarding perceptions on condoms prices, 48.6% of those who felt that condoms are too costly reported that they accept condom promotion and distribution.

Male harassment, defined as a male's repeated attempts to mate (Cluttonbrock and Parker 1995), is reported to be costly to females in many animal species (Chilvers et al. 2005; Plath 2008; Gay et al. 2009; Rossi et al. 2010; Helinski and Harrington 2012).

European private equity firm Permira has dropped out of the private equity group bidding for Dutch market research company VNU on concerns that its 7.3 billion euro ($8.7 billion) preliminary offer was too costly, Reuters reported.

Studies conducted in institutional settings have also reported infliximab to be costly relative to other TNF inhibitors.

We consider a setting in which compensation contract is based on both accounting earnings and stock price when an agent engages in predictable, pernicious earnings management and stock price is endogenously determined in a Noisy Rational Expectations Equilibrium (NREE) that reflects both the public information from reported earnings and a costly, noisy signal privately acquired by investors.

Neither will the evolving global economic situation will be helped by the already increased number of disasters and associated economic losses [ 9], which were reported to be especially costly in most recent years [ 10], and are expected to worsen in a foreseeable future [ 10, 11].