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Example sentences for "great expense"

  • The fleet bore more than four thousand Indians, taken from all districts at great expense, and more than five hundred Spaniards, picked men, commanded by captains of note.

  • Your Majesty has sustained here a number of galleys at a great expense.

  • It was found that in this way a large quantity of ore could be smelted at one operation without much labour or great expense, and could thus be alloyed with lead.

  • Russia has gone to great expense to construct two excellent roads from the north into Persia to facilitate Russian commerce, and it would be advisable if we were to do the same from the south.

  • The warehouses burnt were built upon Mr. Fairbairn's new fireproof plan, which the Liverpool people introduced some years ago, at a great expense to the town.

  • He supposed that the drains were out of order, and went to a great expense to remedy the evil.

  • In consequence therefore of the little benefit and great inconvenience which the towns derived from these guards, who were supported by them at a great expense, they were permitted to return home.

  • So he was terribly aftrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in; and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulcher, and that at great expense also.

  • This continued till some travelers that saw it came and told it in the city to the false prophet, who sent his sons, and brought the body unto the city, and made a funeral for him at great expense.

  • They then made a public funeral for her, at a great expense.

  • For many years, however, the use of such a light was confined to laboratory illustration, for the reason that it could only be produced at great expense by a large number of voltaic batteries.

  • The drawing of warp threads into the eyes of the heddles and through the reed of a loom requires great skill, and prior to 1880 was performed by hand at great expense.

  • So he was terribly affrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in; and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulchre, and at a great expense also.

  • So he was terribly affrighted, and went out, and built a propitiatory monument of that fright he had been in, and this of white stone, at the mouth of the sepulchre, and at a great expense also.

  • The Mohammedan chronicles relate that Solyman the Magnificent went to great expense in restoring it.

  • Myself lately under a great expense of money upon myself in clothes and other things, but I hope to make it up this summer by my having to do in getting things ready to send with the next fleet to the Queen.

  • After staying a while with them, I went home and sat up late, spending my thoughts how to get money to bear me out in my great expense at the Coronacion, against which all provide, and scaffolds setting up in every street.

  • This engine was a source of great expense to him, as well as the chief point in a fine scheme.

  • Madame of the earrings, as I learned from De Shay, was a source of great expense to him, but at that she was elusive, not easily to be come at.

  • You guard at great expense the banks of the Douro, to prevent the influx into Portugal of Spanish grain, and at the same time you now propose, at great expense, to facilitate such an event.

  • There were, it matters not where, two towns, Stulta and Puera, which at great expense had a road built which connected them with each other.

  • Then there were wedding presents to be thought of, which would be a great expense; and Elizabeth was going to spend four months at least with her--an additional drain.

  • For in the first place they are built at great expense, then they are stocked at great expense, and finally they are maintained at great expense.

  • Thus, there are no less than two palaces in the capital, that have been built at great expense, but deserted in order to evade the visits of those most tiresome impalpable individuals, "the Ghosts.

  • The removal to New York would also require the transference of the mint and some other public offices to that city, at great expense.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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