What's the difference between costly and invaluable?

Costly


Definition:

  • (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
  • (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (5) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (6) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (7) This study examines the costs of screening patients for alcohol problems.
  • (8) A recent visit by a member of Iraq's government from Baghdad to Basra and back cost about $12,000 (£7,800), the cable claimed.
  • (9) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
  • (10) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
  • (13) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (14) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (15) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (16) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
  • (17) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (18) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
  • (19) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
  • (20) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.

Invaluable


Definition:

  • (a.) Valuable beyond estimation; inestimable; priceless; precious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
  • (2) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
  • (3) With United having failed to claim an invaluable away goal they have to win by a margin of three in the return leg at Old Trafford on 19 March.
  • (4) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
  • (5) However, the use of systemic treatment with psychoactive drugs used widely in clinical practice, in carefully controlled, behavioural and and endocrine experiments, is likely to provide invaluable information on where and how to investigate the neural mechanisms involved.
  • (6) The clinical diagnosis is sometimes difficult and only the computerized axial tomography may be of invaluable help.
  • (7) The nucleotide sequences presented thus enable us to discriminate the tyrosinase gene from its related sequences and are invaluable for a gene diagnosis of oculocutaneous albinism.
  • (8) The DNA homology data indicate that phenotypic information alone, including antigenic serotypic data, is not always adequate for species designation among the ureaplasmas and that comparative analyses of the genome provide invaluable data for establishing new species.
  • (9) The tracer techniques thus provide invaluable information about platelet-fibrin deposition, its organization and dissolution, and for development of less thrombogenic surfaces for use in cardiovascular prostheses.
  • (10) Surgical evaluations, including examinations under anesthesia, staging laparotomy and second look laparotomy were also invaluable in assessing disease status.
  • (11) In addition, the ELISA was equally capable of identifying elevated serum EH in patients with HCC, and should prove invaluable in evaluating the effectiveness of serum EH levels as a marker for HCC.
  • (12) Tottenham must finance their new £400m stadium, into which they intend to move in 2018-19, and so Pochettino’s ability to succeed without heavy backing on the market is invaluable.
  • (13) The US military source described Mohammed Basardah as an "invaluable" source who had shown "exceptional co-operation", but lawyers for other inmates claim his evidence is unreliable.
  • (14) Thus, we concluded that CT is not only a highly sensitive and accurate modality, but also an invaluable radiological diagnostic tool in the evaluation of blunt abdominal injury.
  • (15) This article reviews the conception and development of this invaluable contribution to our understanding of health and disease.
  • (16) The US military describe him as an "invaluable" source who has shown "exceptional co-operation" and shared his "vast knowledge" with the camp authorities.
  • (17) The intensity and duration of the interventions, the extensive outreach efforts to the family and the dedication and commitment of the staff are not easily replicated but invaluable in helping providers and researchers understand to what extent the impact of severe deprivations and risk can be mediated and potential damage to the newborn prevented.
  • (18) The autopsy of victims in such circumstances, if properly conducted, can yield invaluable trace evidence leading to the identification of the explosive device.
  • (19) In our experience CA-125 is an invaluable indicator of the clinical status of the patient and could be a new tumor marker in patients with MGCT.
  • (20) This Fogarty International Conference has been invaluable because of the diverse backgrounds of the distinguished participants which it attracted.