Sentence examples for trifling cost of from inspiring English sources

Under Davis, the opera house introduced promenade performances, giving, as Bernard Levin wrote, "an opportunity for those (particularly the young, of course) who could not normally afford the price of stalls tickets to sample the view from the posher quarters at the trifling cost of £3 and a willingness to sit on the floor".

But to a new owner, the cost of curing what still remains of decades of neglect will seem relatively trifling, so things are looking up.

The earmarks made up a whopping 1.9% of the total cost of the legislation, while the bonuses AIG paid to employees of its Financial Products division are a trifling 0.09% of total government aid authorized for the insurance giant.

Since cables that are already in the water can be upgraded at a trifling additional cost, those companies that are dropping them today could soon be pulling out treasure chests.

Of course, there are the trifling matters of feudalism, cronyism, ingrained privilege and so on.

But it was trashed to start off with as a trifling romance of high life.

Oh, and after that we have the trifling matter of a little match between Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal.

For him, the theft of $6.1m is still evidently the trifling obsession of pygmies.

But Iran came even closer to breaking the deadlock, if the trifling matter of an offside flag can be overlooked.

Then there's the hardly trifling matter of the loss of the club's license and pre-season drug offences.

BMW, it emerged yesterday, paid the trifling sum of €299 to get the current cold front – named "Cooper" to advertise its Mini – before it started claiming lives.