great cost

Frequency: 7.08.2 per million words

often used for abstract costs like effort or sacrifice

costADJECTIVE + cost

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great

Examples (10)

  • He achieved his dream, but at a great cost to his personal life.
  • The victory was won at a great cost, with thousands of lives lost.
  • Modernizing the city came at a great cost to the local environment.
  • Maintaining that secret for so many years carried a great emotional cost.
  • She was fully aware of the great cost of her decision to emigrate.
  • The industrial revolution brought progress, but at the great cost of worker exploitation.
  • Freedom is a precious thing, often secured at great cost by previous generations.
  • Ignoring climate change now will result in a great cost for future generations.
  • The peace treaty was signed, but the great cost of the conflict would be felt for decades.
  • Was the rapid medical breakthrough worth the great cost to ethical standards?