These tickets are generally less costly than the price of going to a New York theater or arts show.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The goal is to support a private space transportation industry that makes it easier and less costly to reach space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Fairey's designs change the meaning of the Russian propagandist style by applying it to the costly shopping goods of capitalism.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

After two years of fighting, with many deaths on both sides, the government decided the struggle was too costly.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

He says his team's research is influenced by questions in evolutionary biology about why people and groups use costly punishment.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

As both the North and South were learning quickly, the Civil War was becoming more costly than anyone had imagined.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Yet researchers from Stanford University say new treatments are often no better than existing ones, but are almost always more costly.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

They decided that some parents were under too much social pressure to plan costly parties for their children.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Big armies were costly, and many people left because they did not want to pay the high taxes.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The huge popularity of 3-D films like "Avatar," "Up" and "Monsters vs.Aliens" has many people willing to buy this costly, developing technology.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Mister Arbuckle also would like to see more attention on prevention so fewer people need costly medical treatment.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

Others say the change will be too costly, requiring new textbooks and different kinds of training for teachers.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

However,that opinion changed when manufacturers learned how to make better and less costly versions of Mister Harrison's clocks.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Like many of the performances at Capital Fringe, this opera is not about costly and complex production values.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Missus Sommers bought two costly magazines that she used to read back when she had been able to enjoy other pleasant things.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The movie gives an interesting lesson in how city communities can come together to build healthy and safe housing that is not costly.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They are very costly. Or you can buy a copy of a coin for much less money.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Cape May guides say it was costly to care for and repair summer homes near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

The family had to move from a costly apartment in Manhattan to a small house in Brooklyn.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

They would not have to make the long,costly voyage around the southern end of South America.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

They say trying to supply every child with a laptop, even at the current price of one hundred sixty dollars, is costly and inefficient.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Kerosene costs less than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

She said the new law will reward quality over quantity of care, creating a system that prevents diseases before more costly treatment is required.

VOA: special.2010.04.21