Sentences with phrase «considerable opportunity cost»

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The opportunity cost of spending over # 76bn on a replacement for Trident is considerable, not to mention the billions spent every year on the existing system.

Board gaming represents one of the easiest ways for groups of people to sit down and enjoy a shared gaming experience, with relatively little cost and with considerable opportunity for building social capital between friends and relatives.

Because there's been a pretty good market in speculative mining stocks in the past couple of years, the opportunity cost has been pretty considerable.

In the absence of effective policy, by 2020 Australia's emissions are expected to be 17 % higher than they were in 2000, so cutting them to 15 % below by 2020 is a considerable task, but one the Authority, after examining the emissions reduction opportunities available, believes is achievable at modest cost.

André Veneman, Corporate Director of Sustainability, AkzoNobel, a company which firmly believes that sustainability is business and business is sustainability, said: «We have put considerable effort into learning how to source renewable energy in a cost competitive way and the opportunities for our business are huge.