I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cheap alternative
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A take-away is a cheap alternative to eating out.
a cheap option
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We urgently need to find a cheaper option than oil or gas.
a cheap thrill disapproving (= excitement that you can get easily or without much effort )
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Young people go to the big city in search of cheap thrills.
an expensive/cheap restaurant
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He took her out to an expensive restaurant.
cheap and nasty
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a market stall selling cheap and nasty watches
cheap flights
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Environmental groups are calling for an end to cheap flights.
cheap imports
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Farmers are complaining about cheap imports flooding the market.
cheap labour (= workers who have low wages )
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Women and children were used as cheap labour.
cheap (= with a low interest rate )
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Homebuyers are eager to take advantage of the cheap mortgages on offer.
cheap/expensive
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He bought her a bottle of expensive French perfume.
dirt cheap
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Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.
get...cheap
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It’s a lovely coat, and I managed to get it cheap in the sales.
were going cheap (= were being sold at a low price )
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He bought me some CDs which were going cheap .
work out expensive/cheap etc (= be expensive or cheap )
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If we go by taxi, it’s going to work out very expensive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
much
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Use the public booths in town where it's much cheaper .
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Also I didn't have much money, and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey.
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It made it so much cheaper , worthless even.
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I tried to get them repaired, but was told that it would be much cheaper to buy replacements.
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It would be much cheaper , he added, than promoting policies to create new industries in the region.
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It is much cheaper and easier to treat residents as passive and incapable.
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Strained fences of up to ten strands of high-tensile steel wire can be much cheaper for very long, straight runs.
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You can also use them for blocking gaps between skirting boards and floor - it's much cheaper than wood beading.
relatively
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Even if wages are relatively cheap , electricity is not.
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We're talking relatively cheap mega-acres of land and the use of mass-production techniques.
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However, the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen.
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Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
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The equipment is relatively cheap and simple to use.
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It's relatively cheap and currently much is wasted by flare-off at extraction.
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As yet the land is still relatively cheap .
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The premium is again relatively cheap , depending on the extent of cover, and varies from about £3 to £10.
so
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It's just that I feel so cheap .
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It was so cheap in exertion, so productive in humiliation.
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In microchip territory, silicon has always been king because it remains so cheap and easy to use.
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They were so cheap that, even with the cost of smuggling them west, Kurzlinger could make a huge profit.
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How can life be so cheap ?
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I have not had a cup of tea since I came here, as the coffee is so cheap and good.
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Getting laid has never been so cheap in all history.
very
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As a result, pencils were easy to make and very cheap to produce.
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Our stuff was incredibly ugly, shot on video and very cheap .
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You see, it starts off very cheap .
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The whole exercise is very cheap .
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It is a large subject, much in demand, and is very cheap to teach.
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In fact garden centre granite would do, and is very cheap .
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In terms of effectiveness for points costs volley guns are very cheap , so shed no tears if you lose one.
■ NOUN
alternative
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It's touted as the cheaper alternative to Photoshop, and is snapping at the heels of the industry benchmark.
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Arbitration has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to lawsuits because legal costs are lower.
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The catsuit in the picture above costs a cool £1,760, but it isn't impossible to find cheaper alternatives .
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Home entertainment is the cheap alternative , right?
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Pre-coating clean brander plates with a proprietary release water soluble barrier film is a cheaper alternative .
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A cheaper alternative is to take your own small rucksack.
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The clinical grading structure is such that enrolled nurses should never now be considered as a cheaper alternative .
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Can we develop simple and cheap alternatives to over-exploitation?
food
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But we have to accept the blame ourselves, because we have institutionalised the notion of cheap food .
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The drive for cheap food has been behind every food catastrophe of the past decade.
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But only the very cheapest food .
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So why is cheap food given as the excuse for the farming crisis?
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And if that is so, then we must consider the question: who pays for our cheap food ?
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Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food , services and petrol.
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And in this vacuum of ignorance, terrible practices have been tolerated because they delivered the promise of cheap food .
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To these may be added cheap food and tokens of improvement in our staple trade.
import
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The final blow for many firms was the government's abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.
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Farmers wary of increased competition from cheap imports also urged a ban.
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Other leading drug wholesalers in Britain also surreptitiously buy cheap imports using specially-established subsidiary companies.
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Without it, the gain is smaller and confined to the consumption benefit of cheaper imports .
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It means cheaper imports , more pesetas for the pound, a stronger feelgood factor.
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The developing countries are pressed to eliminate trade barriers, which can lead to local producers being undermined by cheaper imports .
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Farmers complain about no-one buying their wine and cheap imports flooding the markets.
labor
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Process technology moves around the globe to find the cheapest labor and the friendliest markets.
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He proposes unspecified tariffs on imports from Third-World nations that depend on cheap labor .
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The cheap labor was short-lived, however.
labour
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An economist would say this is the market working: cheaper labour means more jobs.
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This means the price of its cheap labour must be maintained.
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One response to this decline in the dynamism of Fordism was the geographical decentralization of production in search of cheaper labour .
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It was a form of cheap labour .
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It's not another source of free or cheap labour .
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It provided employers with a cheap labour force.
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A trend had already been set in textiles, where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important.
option
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Useful vegetarian cafe to know about, as the area is short on cheap options .
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He has endorsed the cheaper option .
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One energy mix simply chose the cheapest options for supplying energy - using entirely coal, oil and natural gas.
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How much does it cost an employer to provide childcare facilities and what is the cheapest option ?
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Each has its advantages and disadvantages. internal modems are the cheapest option .
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Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
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Even with an individual membership costing £750, it's not the cheapest option around.
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If not, which will be the cheapest option from the three remaining methods?
price
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Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive.
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Eventually their designs were appropriated for industrial production, which could be sold at cheaper prices .
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The cheapest price he was offered was £730 third party fire and theft.
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Selling short involves borrowing stock and then selling it, hoping to replace the shares at a cheaper price later.
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Andy Parkes tells us how to get large fish at cheaper prices by growing them on.
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And a cheap price it was, too, considering your box-office potential in the years ahead.
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The Nisa store visited in Newcastle had the cheapest prices overall.
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In many cases those imports are available at a cheaper price than within the Community.
rate
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It would then switch itself on at a time when the electricity company has agreed it will get the cheapest rate .
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Moreover, getting the cheapest rate depends on where you call, and, more importantly, when.
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Calls cost 36p a minute, cheap rate , and 48p at all other times.
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Dall was effectively trading money; he sought to borrow each day at the cheapest rates and lend at the highest.
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Calls are charged at 36p per min cheap rate , 48p per min at all other times.
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It enabled me to stay in my home of 30 years rather than move to a property with cheaper rates .
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Or, asking your employer if you can change your hours of work so that you can take advantage of cheap rate travel.
shot
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It was a cheap shot but an effective one.
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Green Bay players complained that the Cowboys are taught to apply cheap shots .
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He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot .
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Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?
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There is increased range flexibility, it is cheaper shot for shot and it leaves a much more saleable end-product.
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Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
thrill
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Do yu tell yu friends how yu get yu cheap thrills ?
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Someday, even adolescent males may tire of the cheap thrills it provides, but that day has yet to come.
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Bet you get a cheap thrill out of that sort of thing, don't you?
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I had thrown away my chances in life, pawned them off for a few cheap thrills .
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The insanity of one unites the sane majority, while the ghoul and the cynic get another cheap thrill .
way
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It is the simplest and cheapest way of injecting since there is generally a slurry tanker already on the farm.
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Cleaning up road dust is one of the cheapest ways to reduce the pollutant.
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What i-the cheapest way of lowering the gearing?
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Though they had hoped for a cheap way to dominate Tonkin, the momentum of Rivieres operation propelled them forward.
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That is the cheapest way of giving some co-ordination and colour to your home.
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Foreign aid was often defended as a cheap way to buy anti-Communist troops.
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Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be: a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly.
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But there is a growing consensus that there is no quick, painless or cheap way out of the morass.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
talk about lazy/cheap/hungry etc
talk is cheap
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cheaper production facilities have helped boost profits.
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a cheap leather jacket
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Hungry-looking men in cheap suits hung around the streets all day.
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I bought the cheapest computer I could find.
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It's cheaper to phone after six o'clock.
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My flight to Reno was really cheap .
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My shoes were really cheap - they only cost $15.
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Oh look -- a present from Rob. I bet it's another bottle of cheap perfume.
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The cheapest way to get to Chicago is to take the bus.
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The girls wore bright frilly dresses and were drenched in cheap perfume.
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The hotel room was very small, with cheap furniture and a bumpy bed.
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The interior of the car is all plastic and has a cheap look about it.
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The outlet mall is a lot cheaper than stores downtown.
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The room was depressing, with dim light and cheap furniture.
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The tourist shops were full of cheap souvenirs.
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Uncle Matt was really cheap - he used to stay with us for weeks, and he never paid for anything.
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Who brought the nasty cheap beer?
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Wooden houses are relatively cheap to build.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A smart suit with cheap uncomfortable shoes generally reveals a man posing above his station.
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Green Bay players complained that the Cowboys are taught to apply cheap shots.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Records, for instance, grew and diversified, including a successful foray into cheap transatlantic flights.
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The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative.
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Then they both walked into an alley between a small pentecostal church and a rat-eaten shack advertising cheap tires.
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This makes women cheaper to dismiss and makes them more vulnerable to redundancy.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
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It won't come cheap , though.
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Life came cheap in the world of 1945.
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Sony products may not come cheap , but they are manufactured to the highest standards of quality.
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This kind of laptop doesn't come cheap .
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A private education hardly comes cheap: students have to pay up to $ 15,000.
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This neck-snapping performance does not come cheap .
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None of this comes cheap , and bold moves will be required.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Old houses can sometimes be bought cheap and fixed up.
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That dress makes her look real cheap .
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You can buy electronic diaries fairly cheaply nowadays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the Navy wants the vessel cheap -- by Pentagon standards at least.
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It won't come cheap , though.