Sentence examples for vertiginous price from inspiring English sources

If too many people have a supposedly exclusive Fendi handbag or Hermès scarf, it is no longer exclusive, and therefore, in the customer's view, no longer worth its vertiginous price.

ROOM SERVICE Extensive menu with vertiginous prices.

Its "society shish kebab summer remix" turns out to be two sticks of meat presented at a jaunty angle, instead of in traditional parallel lines, and the rest of the menu really doesn't warrant the vertiginous prices.

But vertiginous house prices stunt this effect.

Saddled with somebody else's monetary policy, in the 12 years to 1997 we had near double-digit inflation and vertiginous property prices and rents.

Eyles also asks if I'd like any sandwich supplies bought in to help save on Méribel's vertiginous lunch prices.

You could bang on about the bizarre pricing structure, and the vertiginous nature of those prices; about the rough-hewn communal tables that are so wide you can't sit opposite your dining companion because you wouldn't be able to hear each other, and the long benches which make wearing a skirt a dodgy idea unless you're desperate to flash the rest of the heavily male clientele.

Getting permanent residency in Bermuda is difficult and house prices are vertiginous, not least because unlike most other OFCs Bermuda is the home base of many huge global businesses with large numbers of employees.The influx of well-paid expatriates who drive up the cost of living can cause tensions with the local population.

In many other countries, too, prices in the big cities have gone up much faster than average, most notably in London, where prices have risen by a vertiginous 136% in real terms since 1995.At the other extreme, house prices have fallen in nominal as well as in real terms in Germany and Japan over the past seven years.

One is the sheer vertiginous pace of technological change.

The fall in solar prices has been vertiginous.