Now it is somewhere between 60 and 90 shekels a bag - cheaper, but still too expensive and limited in quantity for large-scale building work.

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But energy storage technologies are still too expensive for any widespread use.

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But your career still might stall if you become too expensive for where you are and find yourself restructured out of a role you loved.

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In recent days this market, too, has wobbled but it still looks horribly expensive by historical standards.

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The process is still too expensive to be commercial, but it shows promise.

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But many Chinese still complain that the new services are too expensive and that cheaper, conventional services are being cut.

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Fuel cells are still expensive but that price will come down too.

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There is only a handful of body-scanning booths in use today (the army is using a few to outfit its recruits), and the technology is still too bulky and expensive for all but a few adventurous retailers.

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Chez Georges is exactly what most foreigners want a bistro to be, which is basically a place where time has stood still on a very French clock (Parisians like it, too, but find it expensive).

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Some folks in KC knock it for being too highbrow, though there are still no tablecloths and it is not especially expensive, but sometimes t is nice to make reservation rather than wait (sometimes hours) on a long line.

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