The phrase "already very expensive" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the high cost of an item or service that has increased in price or is perceived as costly at the present time.
Example: "The new smartphone model is already very expensive, making it difficult for many consumers to afford."
Alternatives: "already quite costly" or "already significantly priced".
But Boston and Cambridge are already very expensive places to live and work.
Traditionally farmed meat is already very expensive, Rayner adds, and it will only get more so.
Traditionally farmed meat is already very expensive, Rayner adds, and will only get more so, and it is only a matter of time before members of the public begin to embrace alternatives.
Perhaps to emphasise that these were particularly luxe, as opposed to those from his already very expensive own label, they had a gold tinge, with one that was entirely golden except for black lapels.
There is one good sign on this front, which is that Criterion, the makers of the highest-quality DVD editions in the world (or at least in the U.S ., has just started releasing Blu-Ray versions of its films, and it's pricing them the same as its DVDs (which are, admittedly, already very expensive).
Everything is already very expensive, including rents, condos, private schools, services and especially taxes.
This might have netted the hard-up chancellor a windfall of about £2 billion ($3 billion) but, so argue many in the industry, the tax rise also deterred companies from sinking any more money into an ageing basin where it had already become very expensive to operate.
(laughs) There were people I would have liked to ask and done things with, but this was already a very expensive record.
The detection techniques already available are very expensive and difficult to implement.
We'd already had one, very expensive, quotation from the company that couldn't offer a demo.
Taking into account that the production of cells for clinical use is already safe but very expensive, any new regulations additionally increase these costs without clear effects on safety.
