Alligator skin is ten times costlier than leather.
Both tasks turned out to be harder and costlier than Rolls-Royce thought.
They tended to be paid according to seniority, rather than productivity, and were costlier to sack.
The more code you have, the costlier it will be to add anything new.
Shoppers can easily buy the supermarkets' cheaper own-label beer instead of costlier brands.
"That is to say, borrowings by banks from the central bank are made costlier by raising the bank rate;"
The state is a long way from covering its 130,000 uninsured citizens, while the subsidies are proving costlier than expected.
HP, with 70% of its revenues from hardware, is more like Dell but stuck with costlier distribution channels and supply logistics.
Germany is not just a leading exporter; plenty of imports arrive in towns all over the country to be assembled into costlier goods and sent abroad again.
The report says that means greater demand for raw materials, including wheat, soy, palm oil and corn, which means costlier food.
The US drought will not endanger domestic food security but it is almost certain to result in costlier cooking oil and pork, experts said.
Also likely to be axed: a new 'ecological plastic' that emits less carbon dioxide over the course of its life than more traditional alternatives, but which is costlier to produce.
Doing so would please many investors and analysts who say the bank's parts would be worth more than the whole, but such a plan might be costlier than people think.
Also, higher oil prices mean higher transportation costs — another reason for costlier ng food prices might be one thing on the minds of Thanksgiving Day meal planners this year.
The theory of "efficiency wages" says that firms which cannot monitor workers' efforts well should instead pay high wages to make it costlier for them to risk being sacked.
