The business quickly repaid the initial outlay on advertising.

这家公司很快偿付了初期的广告费。

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recovering the initial outlay plus imputed interest.

收回创始费用外加估算利息。

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It will bring each of them one-off costs in the tens of millions, but the savings over time will dwarf the initial outlay.

这可能会使他们一次性消耗数千万美元，但是随着时间的流逝，对于整个成本的节省使得初始的投入不值一提。

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An initial outlay of hundreds of thousands of dollars was well worth it, he said.

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The cost of putting a smartphone app together, for example, is so high that only the most popular of books would be likely recoup the initial outlay.

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Yet figures released to the BBC earlier this week from financial information service Moneyfacts found that mortgages were still being rationed, making the initial outlay for first-time buyers relatively expensive.

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