it costs about vs it cost about

Some examples from the web:

• And it costs about the same as any other school lunch program.
• These are the "trouble kids" of the public school system in Appleton, Wisconsin, that are eating so well. and it costs about the same as any other school lunch program.
• And at £77,000, it costs about half as much as its stepsister, the Lamborghini Gallardo.
• Or if they get an extra ration of food at the end of the week - it costs about 50 cents - will keep a girl in school, and they'll give birth to a healthier child, because the malnutrition is sent generation to generation.
• It costs about 10 dollars a piece to go and take a disk and put it online, if you're doing things in volume.
• It costs about 40,000 dollars to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person.
• When you have a non-stick pan, it costs about, maybe, 250 rupees, five dollars, six dollars.
• The average cost per pupil in 2002 is about € 10900 but costs differ dramatically from one school to another: it costs about € 8600 to educate a pupil at Brussels II, but around € 14200 at Bergen (Netherlands).
• It costs about $75 per person.
• It costs about a dollar for each base - a very slow way of doing it.
• It costs about the same as the Audi and will now run four rings round it.
• It costs about the same to produce a new drug whether that drug treats 1,000 people, 100,000 people, or a million people.
• - It costs about $2.10 a barrel.
• It costs about three dollars to download, print and bind a normal, old book.
• But because of this experimentation and iteration that was allowed because of the patient capital, we've now found that it costs about a dollar in the private sector to distribute, and a dollar to buy the net.

Some examples from the web:

• Looks like it cost about two million quid.
• 81/2 years ago, it cost about $1,000 per DNA test.
• And it cost about 500 dollars to start it, which was about the equivalent of 10,000 dollars of today.
• It costs about $75 per person.
• - It costs about $2.10 a barrel.
• It costs about a dollar for each base - a very slow way of doing it.
• It costs about 10 dollars a piece to go and take a disk and put it online, if you're doing things in volume.
• And at £77,000, it costs about half as much as its stepsister, the Lamborghini Gallardo.
• It costs about the same as the Audi and will now run four rings round it.
• And it costs about the same as any other school lunch program.
• When you have a non-stick pan, it costs about, maybe, 250 rupees, five dollars, six dollars.
• These are the "trouble kids" of the public school system in Appleton, Wisconsin, that are eating so well. and it costs about the same as any other school lunch program.
• It costs about the same to produce a new drug whether that drug treats 1,000 people, 100,000 people, or a million people.
• It costs about three dollars to download, print and bind a normal, old book.
• It costs about 40,000 dollars to train a guide dog and train the recipient so that the guide dog can be an effective help to a blind person.
• So far it's cost about 150 million.
• It normally costs about 300, but I found a place that would do it for 200.
• The average cost per pupil in 2002 is about € 10900 but costs differ dramatically from one school to another: it costs about € 8600 to educate a pupil at Brussels II, but around € 14200 at Bergen (Netherlands).
• Or if they get an extra ration of food at the end of the week - it costs about 50 cents - will keep a girl in school, and they'll give birth to a healthier child, because the malnutrition is sent generation to generation.
• But because of this experimentation and iteration that was allowed because of the patient capital, we've now found that it costs about a dollar in the private sector to distribute, and a dollar to buy the net.