so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

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Because this sort of slow-drip approach is costing a lot of innocent people their lives.

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That is costing a lot of money and as a public service broadcaster we don't have the resources to do that.

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California's governor, Gray Davis, says all of this is costing a lot of money, but there is no choice but to keep people safe.

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