| Childcare is either non-existent or so expensive that it is beyond the resources of the serviceman or woman. |
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| New York has become so expensive that fun, crazy artist and musician types can no longer afford to live or move here. |
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| This European patent is so expensive that it is not competitive with other patents. |
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| Dialing internationally on cellphones is typically so expensive that the service is used mostly by businesspeople on expense accounts. |
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| But the project's huge cost made CAP water so expensive that farmers couldn't afford it. |
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| But digital SLRs were, until recently, so expensive that only professionals could afford them. |
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| Digital gauges used to be so expensive that only true weather zealots bought them. |
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| I would like to say that 30 years ago when you bought a refrigerator, it was so expensive that few people had one. |
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| Compliance with tier upon tier of EU regulation is so demanding, so onerous and so expensive that it is stultifying EU output and prosperity. |
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| There is no child care, or the waiting list is so long and child care is so expensive that the children cannot get in. |
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| Some licences are so expensive that it makes more sense to put them in a company without jeopardizing the Owner-Operator policy. |
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| Many innovation projects are, however, today so expensive that their profitability requires access to even wider markets. |
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| A check of the K-value of the body is so expensive that only in limited cases is this done in practice. |
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| Remember when airfares were so expensive that a holiday in the sun was only ever an occasional treat? |
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| Older Tempranillos were so expensive that no one could afford them. |
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| Modern tractor-trailers are so expensive that most buyers try to cut purchase and financing costs to the bone rather than looking at all the costs and benefits over the life of the truck. |
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| Apparently it's so expensive that even residents of Prague stay away. |
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| Third: Certain military capabilities are so expensive that the only way for smaller Allies to acquire and operate such capabilities is by pooling together with other Allies. |
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| During the Middle Ages, pepper was sometimes used to pay rents, dowries and taxes, and was so expensive that the English took to using herb substitutes to flavor their food. |
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| It is just a question of how to get rid of it, as this equipment and hardware is so expensive that the only people to possess it are those who can afford to use it in converged form. |
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| On the one hand, this is because they are too big for many ports and, on the other, because these ships are so expensive that they do not want to waste too much time in port. |
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| The near-depletion of the giant Maui offshore gas field made gas-fired electricity generation so expensive that wind generation is economic with no subsidy. |
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| It made things so expensive that we don't even rent the building half as often anymore because it's not profitable to pay to have those people there. |
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| London's so expensive that people are grumpy. |
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| They were so expensive that only the wealthy enjoyed them. |
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| The discount rate can be so deep and the service fee so expensive that the cost of receivables financing may be higher than the interest of a standard loan. |
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| Tulip bulbs became so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency, or rather, as futures. |
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| We will probably never run out of oil, but the extraction of the remaining oil will become so expensive that our economies will be forced to move away from it: all the more reason to prepare for the post-oil period. |
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| For example, when laser printers first came out, they were so expensive that they were more costly per page than the old daisywheel printers with preprinted forms. |
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| From 1898 to around 1905, osmium was also used as a lamp filament in Europe, and the metal was so expensive that used broken lamps could be returned for partial credit. |
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