1. A folio edition was an expensive item, but even cheaper quarto editions of most writers were not available readily.
2. A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents - including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock.
3. A lower dollar also makes their products more expensive and less competitive abroad.
4. A major advantage of both MID-TEL and MID-CRED is that neither system requires customers to install expensive computer equipment.
5. A more expensive model recites a different Koranic verse at each hour.
6. A practice with more patients needing expensive medicines will be set a larger amount.
7. A property tax is essentially unfair unless so many qualifications are built into it that it becomes complicated and expensive to administer.
8. A satellite that can stabilize itself would be less expensive than those that depend on steering jets.
9. A second important barrier is that factoring is widely perceived to be expensive.