The phrase "a steep fee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a fee that is considered excessively high or expensive.
Example: "The service comes with a steep fee that many customers find hard to justify."
Alternatives: "an exorbitant fee" or "a high charge."
Otherwise the buyer may be stuck with the phone, sometimes for up to two years unless he pays a steep fee.
Jay Schneiderman, a Republican county legislator, is sponsoring separate legislation to impose a steep fee increase for corporate jets and set up a community-based airport advisory committee.
Although there have been published reports that she will not support "Precious" by going to film festivals unless she's paid a steep fee, Mo'Nique seems unequivocally devoted to Daniels.
A little more than ten days after withdrawing from Unesco, the administration proposed a steep fee hike for 17 of the most visited national parks in the American system, with some parks facing entrance fees of $70£5252).
One day, Susan comes in claiming that her house is haunted, it's affecting the behaviour of her teenage stepson Miles, and the narrator sees a chance to expand her hustling activities, offering to come round and cleanse the house for a steep fee.
Kim Tae-jin, the president of Free NK Gulag, an activist group in Seoul, said defectors living in the South have been finding it nearly impossible to reach the "escape brokers" who can bring a relative to freedom, for a steep fee.
City officials said that the amount they could charge such shuttles was limited by state law to cost recovery and that charging a steeper fee would require a citywide vote.
Charging a moderate fee can get you a 10%to20%0% reduction, says Mr Litman, but a steeper fee would probably have the effect of getting even more cars off the road.
And woe be unto a CPA who files a renewal form, or pays a fee, or reports CPEs, a little late, he gets walloped with a steep late fee as well.
To wit, by buying an N.F.L. or an N.B.A. team, the new member pays a steep initiation fee for the right to potentially make money off local fans.
This would be an exclusive, invitation-only tournament with a steep entry fee and hefty prize money, featuring the 100 best anglers in the country.
