Measured by what it would cost to duplicate it, it represents a larger and larger amount on the companies' inventories.
Size is, as we shall see, an element of efficiency, and the great establishment often sells goods for less than it would cost a small one to make them.
I could not go back to Leavenworth very conveniently, and it would cost me more than the amount of money I had lost.
We can sleep here for fifty cents each, and it would cost a dollar at the hotel.
Perhaps it is worth as much as it would cost you to go up there and back.
He estimated with reckless optimism what it would cost to start a herd, and how long it would take them to pay for a house with a fireplace and red curtains.
The water power, once installed, would cost nothing; it would work all day and all year until the bed of the stream was worn level.
In 1908, after the army had been going at regulation double-quick for a year, a board was appointed to estimate just how much material would have to be taken out, and how much it would cost.
The promise to extend the telegraphs to every place with a money order issuing Post Office was given in ignorance of what it would cost to carry out that promise.
Then I would build them again for one-half what it would cost them to destroy them.
The gaoler quieted them by saying that I was a foreigner and did not understand English, and then took me to a cell, informing me how much it would cost me, and of the prison rules, as if he felt certain that I should make a long stay.
I am delighted with your answer, as I confess it would cost me something to be the witness of your exploits with Tonine.
Meure loved me, and I fancied she would not say no if I told her that her refusal to marry me would cost me my life.
Brooke looked at her steadily, with his lips set, and, though she did not see this, his fingers quivering a little, for he realized at last what it would cost him to leave her.
It would cost quite a pile of dollars to dry the workings out.
Well," he said, "before I took hold of any contract of that kind I would like to know just how much I was going to make on it, and what it would cost me.
It would cost a hundred krones at the very least," the grandmother remarked.
The engineer threatened them with the law and the authorities; it would cost thousands of kroner to empty the harbor again.
After finding out how much it would cost, I posted this letter with my own hands; and the gloomy winter closed upon me, with nothing but its dreary round of heavy ponderings and lonesome work.
It would cost more to take the young man to her, and perhaps he would never come back again.
I have no doubt that you have acted for the best;” the lady returned, for she wished to do no harm, and saw that it would cost me more than two thousand pounds to have Uncle Corny set against me.
To rebuild it would cost a hundred and twenty pounds, and that is more than we see our way to at present, though I can promise fifty if they can scape up the rest.
It is quite impossible to let the place fall out of cultivation--and that is what would happen otherwise, for if I were to lay it down in grass it would cost a considerable sum, and be seven or eight years before I got any return.
Every man says to himself, It would cost me a great [p351] deal to render this service to myself, therefore I must pay well for it, for I am quite certain that it would cost me more to obtain what I am in quest of by my own exertions.
When I purchase a service, I not only ask how much it will cost another to render that service to me, but how much it would cost me to render that service to myself.
He was far from sure that the scheme would prove successful, and it was at least certain that it would cost him a good deal of trouble to carry it out.
Nasmyth turned and went into the shanty, conscious that it would cost him an effort to get out of it again.
Now that the time had come, he, who had once been welcomed at brilliant London functions, felt that it would cost him an effort to part with these rough comrades.
An hour ago, as he had told Laura Waynefleet, he would have been well content to stay on at the ranch, and, though she had roused him, he knew that it would cost him an effort to leave it.
To heat an acre through 10°, would cost, then, $72.
It had been figured out just what itwould cost to renew the notes and pay interest on them, if the bank would allow Mr. Day to do that.
He had made it his business to find out about what it would cost to get to the Border, and he realized he must have money for other expenses besides his car fare.
He named the sum it would cost Marty to go on that special train.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would cost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
