1.   Bidding is a costly process, and they got beaten badly today.

2.   Boeing, for example, would rather lower the price of a plane to make a sale than cut production, which is a costly process.

3.   But homeowners say the current law is industry-friendly and amounts to a costly process that wears down consumers.

4.   But it had submitted its product for approval as a new device, a less time-consuming, less costly process than submitting a new drug for review.

5.   But making them has been very expensive because creating the enzymes used to string the chains together is a costly process.

6.   If successful, the case could have national ramifications by opening the increasingly costly political process to candidates with little money.

7.   Mass hysteria is generally diagnosed by excluding all known infectious and noxious agents, a costly process.

8.   MorphoSys is marketing a screening technology called a Human Combinatorial Antibody Library to help customers find likely drug candidates and speed up the costly process of drug development.

9.   StarMedia would build a gateway to various Spanish- and Portuguese-language Web sites rather than go through the costly process of creating its own sites.

10.   That would be a costly process, at a time when personal computer sales are on the decline.