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what price ——?1Used to ask what has become of something or to suggest that something has or would become worthless: what price justice if he were allowed to go free?...- I also addressed the Post Workers' Union meeting at St George's Hall in the company of Coun Margaret Eaton and Marsha Singh MP - what price that effort.
- With the countryside slathered in chemicals and the parks sanitised in the name of ‘safety’, what price our ‘heritage’?
- But what price his reputation if it had to rest alone on the output of that wilderness period?
2Used to state that something seems unlikely: what price cricket at the Olympics?...- And what price the chancellor actually assisting in the purchase of all these crofts by giving top-rate taxpayers cash incentives to buy up the properties?
- And if our political leaders fail to set a firm example, what price the fashion industry itself?
- If even animals can't feel welcome and at home in Caledonia stern and wild, what price people?
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