1.   The group found a much cheaper substitute in coke breeze.

2.   The higher prices have led to increasing moves by the electronics industry in Japan to use cheaper substitutes, such as nickel, said Steel.

3.   They turned to flush doors as a cheaper substitute for paneled doors.

4.   Dr Sulaiman said the first few steps were to change the mindset of the people through campaigns and to look for cheaper substitutes from other countries.

5.   He said among the cheaper local substitutes under study by the Ministry were sweet potatoes and tapioca.

6.   On the surface, piracy seems to be a boon to consumers and business end-users since it offers cheaper substitutes to the genuine products.

7.   They may opt to downsize the portion of their kueh or roti canai instead, or use cheaper substitutes as ingredients for their nasi ayam.

8.   The price of other foodstuffs used as cheaper substitutes for rice, such as bulgur wheat, cassava, eddoes and plaintains, have also sky-rocketed.