tremendous cost

collocation in English

meaningsoftremendousandcost

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tremendous
adjective
uk
/trɪˈmen.dəs/us
/trɪˈmen.dəs/
very great in amount or level, or ...
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cost
noun
uk
/kɒst/us
/kɑːst/
the amount of money needed to buy, do, or ...
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(Definition oftremendousandcostfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The administration met the first goal, at atremendouscostto society - it could have spent these budget surpluses on education, healthcare, housing, infrastructure development, or other needed programmes.
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Some of us who are interested in the development of the transport industry feel thetremendouscostput upon industry in general in this way.
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We must also bear in mind thetremendouscostto the health and general well-being of under-age drinkers.
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Instead of that they all go to meal oil, attremendouscostto the taxpayer.
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On the other hand, there is the question of thetremendouscostof the alternative.
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These departments should not be allowed constantly to expand, when they may be working inefficiently and at atremendouscostto ratepayers.
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This is such an important scheme oftremendouscostthat they would not deal with these matters lightly.
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You weight it with thistremendouscost, so great that.
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Tremendouscostis involved in constructing a new face, sometimes amounting to about a quarter of a million pounds.
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We think the lawyers should be out of it, because of thetremendouscostthey mean to all trade unions.
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That can put atremendouscoston third parties.
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One could say a lot about companies which have gone bust and have had to be bailed out attremendouscostto ratepayers.
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Finally, with respect to obscuration, it will entailtremendouscostto firms who have a lot of glass to their buildings.
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Greenhouses cost some £15,000 to £20,000 an acre, and there is atremendouscostin fuel and labour.
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He must already be aware that there is atremendouscostin congestion.
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We, in the meantime, are keeping these unemployed at atremendouscost, which cannot go on without grave financial injury to this country.
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All this has meanttremendouscostfor the local authority.
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It is time that they realised thetremendouscostto the nation of an unhealthy person, and the wonderful asset that health is.
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It will also find a certain amount of useful employment for workmen, without thetremendouscostentailed by the conduit system.
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Therefore, there is atremendouscostto the hospitals.
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