The phrase "a massive expense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing costs that are significantly high or burdensome.
Example: "The renovation of the old building turned out to be a massive expense that we hadn't budgeted for."
Alternatives: "a huge cost" or "a significant outlay."
How long you need to prepare: Private school is a massive expense, so the sooner you start planning, the better.
That seems like a small thing, but ticket tagging and routing can be a massive expense for big businesses.
Albeit that would be a massive expense for tech platforms like YouTube and Facebook that are hosting (and monetizing) user generated content at such vast scale.
Most importantly, this strategy will save the established firms a risky and often massive expense on in-house research and development in catching up with the likes of Google and its tribe.
"While a live stream hosted exclusively in-house will reach your own fans and followers, working with an influencer will expand your reach without leveraging the massive expense of creating a highly produced video". Working with influencers and live media streams, you can add live hosts to your events with minimum production or preparation costs.
"She didn't allow him an in-country right of appeal against his asylum refusal - at massive expense to taxpayers, she hired a private charter plane to remove Mr Muazu to Nigeria".
She didn't allow him an in country right of appeal against his asylum refusal; at massive expense to tax payers she, hired a private charter plane to remove Mr Muazu to Nigeria... We do not know how Mr Muazu is as we lost contact with him late last night.
But the massive scale means massive expense and slow progress – a problem that Lockheed say CFR will solve.
"For small employers that do not offer health insurance, tax incentives are unlikely to cause many of them to choose a massive new expense they just cannot afford in the first place".
Requiring two space shuttle missions to get it right (first to put into orbit and then a second mission to fix the mirror) and a massive $2.5 billion expense, many proclaimed that it was a giant boondoggle and a drain on the taxpayers.
But with the massive expense involved in winning the accolade at a time when the council is having to make more than £40m of budget cuts, why does Hull want the title?
