Example Sentences

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Development pressure, tree diseases, storms and old age have been costing the city an estimated 9,000 trees per year, according to a state estimate.

From Washington Times • May 17, 2020

Little things have been costing us and the margin on Friday will be small.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

Last week the Federal Trade Commission told why, for years, they have been costing far more than they should.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the music stopped and the casualty lists appeared: > Fired were four topFox executives whose brains have been costing the company at least half a million a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scores of transports have taken their departure, which is a great blessing, for they have been costing fabulous sums.

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin