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As new low-cost competitors from Asia and eastern Europe have entered the global marketplace, Britain's manufacturers have been forced to move upmarket.
Around 60% of the companies surveyed had some of their IT work done in low-cost countries.
low-cost airlines/carriers/flights Another low-cost airline went bust after expanding too fast.
There is pressure on capital cities to provide low-cost housing for its nurses and teachers.
low-cost energy/electricity
low-cost labour/manufacturing/production
Utilizing the nutritional needs of elephants, two low-cost strategies could be used to reduce crop-raiding behaviour.
First, poor farmers normally view the technology as a low-cost way for cultivating their land.
Thus, this book is about an old dream on how to achieve unlimited, safe, clean, and low-cost energy by laser- or beamdriven inertial nuclear fusion.
To produce a low-cost product, designers need to know whether the designed product can be assembled and what the assemblability of its components is.
These pieces of legislation have together facilitated the proliferation of low-cost carriers, thus ensuring greater competition within the industry and cheaper flights for the consumer.
This measurement system is relatively low-cost, easy to use, and provides sufficiently accurate calibration results for the purposes of our work.
Paradoxically, therefore, low-cost chemotherapy may be most appropriate to the more developed countries with higher standards of sanitation.
The main challenge in this environment is the need to achieve precision operation at high speed with low-cost sensing and actuation.
