Building, updating and supporting all those separate pieces of software is fairly expensive and complex.

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Having said that, Temasek is paying a fairly expensive 15 times prospective 2006 earnings for Shin Corp.

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Liquidmetal's injection molding process is still a relatively new technology, and it's fairly expensive -- but that's not necessarily anything that Apple would shy away from.

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While a 1-gigabyte hard drive was fairly expensive in 1995, PC hard drives of 20 GB and up are now fairly typical, reducing the need for the extra PC storage space.

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However, Seoul remains fairly expensive, especially in traditionally desirable areas such as Apgujeong-dong, Daechi-dong and Gaepo-dong, all part of the Gangnam district, and newer areas such as Banpo-dong in the Seocho district.

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This procedures requires a series of treatments using a fairly expensive piece of equipment to produce results that are of enormous value to a few people with extensive birthmarks, and of smaller value to many other people with smaller birthmarks.

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While the concept of multialternative funds is "solid, " according to Morningstar analyst Mallory Horejs, she says the category is riddled with expensive funds with fairly short track records.

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Somehow in 1968 the economy was able to pay for a very expensive Cold War, a very expensive hot war and a fairly prosperous consumer econonmy with trading at a miniscule fraction of todays level.

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Partly as a result, Tokyo, once the most expensive city in the world, now seems fairly reasonable to a visitor compared with New York, say.

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Home dialysis was fairly common in the 1960s, when the treatment was new and extremely expensive.

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Starting a legal business here is fairly easy to do, but in numerous other countries the process is time-consuming and expensive, requiring multiple licenses and procedures and the involvement of multiple government agencies.

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