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In natural English speech, "cost a fortune" appears in contexts such as: "The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings. It cost a fortune to have a book like that, but there were a lot of pirated editions as well.". You can listen to the exact timestamped audio clip in the accompanying video.

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The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings.It cost a fortune to have a book like that, but there were a lot of pirated editions as well.

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