1.   Yet road congestion is estimated to cost the country fifteen billion pounds annually.

2.   But it would leave unresolved the questions that have already cost the country so much in anguish, division and uncertainty.

3.   Hun Sen may have won political power with his coup, but he has cost his country dearly in foreign investment.

4.   Low oil prices were costing the country billions in lost sales, forcing it to contemplate painful budget cuts.

5.   Corruption, however, is increasingly seen as a problem costing the country millions of dollars a year.

6.   Corruption, however, is increasingly seen as a problem, costing the country millions of dollars a year.

7.   If the lost business and other opportunity costs are taken into consideration, the water fiasco may have cost the country billions of ringgit in export earnings.

8.   Keeping them afloat would cost the country dearer in the longer term than the loss of a few jobs.

9.   Largely conservative opponents of the measures claimed the reforms would cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars.

10.   The delays have cost the country hundreds of millions of dollars in postponed loans.