The alternative minimum tax is a potentially more costly item.

Instead, most sales involved less costly items, including upgrades to existing systems.

When that is done, the components themselves will be costly items.

As privatization proceeds, no one is rushing to buy these costly items or even to maintain them.

For many people, real estate will be the most costly item they will ever buy.

The costliest items include food, cigarettes, education and recreational services.

But by the mid-20th century they had become rare and costly collector's items.

Priced at $150,000, it is the costliest item in the show.

Automobiles seem to be the most costly items of dubious origin.

It also buys costlier items like computers and television sets.