cost of original production

基本解释

Original production string acidizing is a new technology, which can greatly shorten the recycle of acidizing treatment and economize operating cost.
不動琯柱簡易酸化是一項較新的工藝，利用該技術可大大縮短作業周期、降低作業成本。
The newly developed digital type marking machine featured by its cost effective and ease of operation has replaced the original imported matrix-type marking machine in the production.
研制的數字化噴號機替代了進口矩陣型針式打號機用於生産。設備成本低，維護操作簡單。
By improving operation process the working life of the melting trench has been lengthened from original 3 months to 8 months lining buiding frequency was decreased and production cost was reduced.
通過改進操作方法，使熔溝的壽命由原來3個月延長到8個月，減少築爐次數，降低了生産成本。

Buy for whatever fraction of the original build cost they can that production line.
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One thing that allows HBO to offset this cost is that most of its programming, on an hourly basis, is movies (remember that HBO stands for Home Box Office), the rights to which are relatively less expensive than producing original content, as much of the production cost of these films has been absorbed by box office sales.
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