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• at all costs (= "by all means")
• According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
• The total cost of the new complex was an estimated $1.5 million.
• We have to cut costs if we want to avoid bankruptcy.
• The average cost of a new house is twice as much as t was 20 years ago.
• There were many costs to the development project, the least of all was the financial aspect.
• If you train all the time, there will be a few costs such as a lack of free time.
• This shirt cost $50, while this was cheaper at only $30.
• It will cost you a lot of money to take a trip around the world.
• Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
• Trying to rescue the man from the burning building cost them their lives.
• though it cost me ten nights' watchings
• to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
• I'd cost the repair work at a few thousand.
• betwixt the costs of a ship
• What are the costs of this operation?
• How much does it cost?