Sentence examples for would be steep from inspiring English sources

The cost of securing this slightly cheaper financing would be steep.

Smiling with the surety that it would be steep, I questioned the cost.

The competition would be steep — with dozens of students applying for each internship — but less selective than in 2009.

The cost would be steep because much of the financing is coming on commercial terms rather than as aid.

Any fall Ms. Scott might take would be steep: she measures 6 feet 3 inches in her stocking feet.

But a small-plane pilot would probably need some help from the ground, because the learning curve would be steep, with little time and even less margin for error.

The great speculator George Soros, writing in this paper, reckons the drop would be steeper, to below $1.15.

From there, the deficit's drop would be steeper; the plan projects it to be $125 billion in 2015 and $69 billion in 2016, with a $7 billion surplus in 2023.

The release, as reported by The News, suggested that Ford would also say that its fourth-quarter losses would be steeper than expected.

While Staten Island was included in the study, it was not among the boroughs where the study said the increases would be steepest.

Either Republican faces an uphill climb against Mayor James E. McGreevey of Woodbridge, the Democratic candidate, the survey found, although Mr. Schundler's would be steeper.