At first, the new seeds were extremely expensive.
The food and wine were extremely expensive, the decor luxurious but discreet, the clientele beautifully dressed, and much of the conversation more than mildly insane.
The only problem was that they were extremely expensive – and labour-intensive – to make, so the Americans and Russians simply churned out cheaper tanks by the tens of thousands.
If a bed was carved, it could be quite expensive, but its cost was negligible compared to the cost of the fabric and trimmings, which usually came from Italy and were extremely expensive".
There were treatments such as desensitisation, which meant being subjected to white noise at gradually increasing volumes to readjust your ears to normal sound, but they were extremely expensive and at that time I was pretty broke," he says.
Good warhorses were extremely expensive; in the mid-14th century an ordinary Central Asian steed cost 100 silver tangas, an exceptional one 500 silver tangas, while a fine Arabian or Persian racehorse cost as much as 1,000 to 4,000 silver tangas.
