英语词汇“example_english_small-fortune”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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They make a smallfortune from digging out the coal and putting miners out of work.
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The county council spent a smallfortune trying to stop those leaks, but they failed, and the last barge went through that tunnel in 1911.
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It would cost a smallfortune for no tangible benefit.
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The company has spent, and continues to spend, a smallfortune upon dust elimination, and even better standards of control to prevent pollution.
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If you keep the wrong company at home with someone earning a smallfortune like £10 a week, well, you know.
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It has been staffed by 560 people for all that time, costing taxpayers and consumers a smallfortune.
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They get very little encouragement, and it costs them a smallfortune before they make any headway at all.
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It has spent a smallfortune planning it.
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Give him his family allowances as well, and add them on to his £5 or £6 a week, and still £5 is a smallfortune.
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I have regularly heard the line about how one can make a smallfortune—start with a large one and go into venture capital.
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If it will cost a smallfortune to meet the noise regulations, that may put a different complexion on its prospects.
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It is said that it will cost a smallfortune to build the prefabricated units.
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Nowadays, it costs a smallfortune to travel on public transport, even if one is travelling only three or four miles.
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Every single one went pear-shaped and cost the people of this country a smallfortune.
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Too much is made of the idea that the fisherman is making a smallfortune when he goes to work because he has a corner on his landing.
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I understand it is an old saying in the motor sport industry that anyone can make a smallfortune out of motor racing providing they start with a large one.
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No witness can be considered objective if he or she stands to make a smallfortune—or perhaps a large fortune—depending on the verdict in the case.
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They pick up £100,000 of taxpayers' money from the deficit grants that were made in years gone by and then make a smallfortune on the side.
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It is not surprising that it is not a sufficient bar, because to wait for a considerable sum of money—a smallfortune—for six years is well worth doing.
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