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1 - Train travel is the least expensive and most convenient method to reach just about any location in Ukraine.

2 - Organic farming is more labor intensive and thus initially more expensive, but long-term costs may be less than those of conventional farming.

3 - Most people believe that it is cheaper to execute dangerous criminals than to keep them in jail for years at the expense of taxpayers.

4 - Every year, a quarter of a million infants is born with a birth defect and undergoes expensive surgery.

5 - A large number of researchers arranged some reports about the benefits of a treatment plants to dispose the waste water from the factories, but the owners opposed these reports for fear that the so-called plants should cost them expensive amount of money.