1.   Are rates less expensive at certain times of the year?

2.   Braun said he likes bonds maturing in three to seven years because longer-dated issues are too expensive at the moment.

3.   Like Taxol and Gemzar, Paraplatin and Platinol are expensive even at the wholesale price given to pharmacists.

4.   Movies, though more expensive at theaters, he said, are also available on videotape and DVD and cable.

5.   Such legislation could be expected to make welfare programs more expensive at a time when federal and state governments are eager to reduce welfare spending and budget deficits.

6.   Starting and maintaining an individual retirement account is also significantly less expensive at some firms than at others.

7.   The loans will help poor nations to buy the drugs, which are expensive even at discounted prices.

8.   U.S. stocks fell amid concern that rising borrowing costs and slimming profit margins will make shares expensive at current levels.

9.   Consumers got the best bargain for ikan merah at the Buntong wet market while the fish was most expensive at the Canning Garden wet market.

10.   Similarly, garlic was also twice as expensive at Parkson Grand in comparison with the other supermarkets.