Sentence examples for something of a cost from inspiring English sources
But it should also be remembered that caffeine is essentially a stimulant and like many performance-enhancing supplements, tapping into its benefits on a regular basis, rather than just once in a while, may come at something of a cost.
The win may have come at something of a cost to Slaughtneil as impressive forward Christopher Bradley sustained a suspected broken collarbone late in the game and is now a doubt for the final on St Patrick's Day.
There is also no doubt that it is something of an on-cost for publishers to print and distribute bulks.
Its a market-based system, because it allows hospitals to choose among rivals such as Cerner, Allscripts and General Electric, but it practically forces everyone to buy something, at a cost of up to $30 million per hospital and thats without the extra IT staff they need to hire.
There will be "synergies"—which, as Ken Berry, chief executive of EMI Recorded Music, points out, "is something of a euphemism for cost-cutting".
Few Indian kitchens have room for refrigerators, and the appliances are also something of a status symbol: the cost is equal to nearly two months' salary for an engineer.
The term "no-cost" is something of a misnomer, since the closing costs are simply added to the loan and repaid over time.
"If you think that free is going to produce something that's as much of a cost centre as good journalism – because it costs money to do good journalism – you're out of your mind".
The three ongoing industrial-size CCS projects in the US are the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Project; the Kemper project in Mississippi, which is something of a poster-child for delays and cost overruns; and the $1bn Petra Nova project, a 50-50 joint venture of NRG Energy and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp ,Japan's largest oil producer.
The increase at Toyota, Japan's largest car manufacturer and the world's fourth largest, was something of a testament to the company's cost-cutting programs -- savings that contributed $1.4 billion in operating profit during the last fiscal year.
In reality, however, high costs can be something of a myth.
