The phrase "an initial expense of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the upfront costs associated with a project, investment, or purchase.
Example: "Before we proceed with the renovation, we need to consider an initial expense of $10,000 for materials and labor."
Alternatives: "a preliminary cost of" or "an upfront cost of".
However, there is still an initial expense associated with the design of the appropriate digital filter.
For such a volume of hydrogen it is necessary an initial expense between 613000 USD and 855000 USD excluding losses.
Gipsy camping, as it is called, is less practised owing to the initial expense of a caravan and the difficulty of putting up the horses, which demand much better accommodation than human beings can make shift with.
Much of the initial expense of creating a game involves the creation of characters and artwork, and the software "engine" that brings the game world to life.
With a goldfish, you just need to feed it and maintain its tank, after the initial expense of purchasing a tank, rocks and decorations.
Defence officials have admitted to the Guardian that the lifetime costs of Britain's new Trident nuclear deterrent could amount to well over twice the estimated £15bn-£20bn £15bn-£20bnense of buinitialthexpensem quofed in Decembuildingithepaper.
Energy costs may be lower than their existing electricity bills, but the initial expense of installing solar panels puts many people off.Enter the city of Berkeley, California, which has just completed a pilot programme in which it lends homeowners the money to put panels on their houses.
The first important reform was the prohibition of the suffragia, or sale of provincial governorships, in 535, for it was clear that new governors' desire to recoup the heavy initial expense of purchasing their office accounted for much extortion inflicted by them upon the provincial populaces.
However, at least two other considerations suggest that the initial expense of hydrological separation would be at least partially offset by other advantages relative to the other strategies.
Cost savings on transcription and secretarial time using a PDA system may offset the initial expenses of the PDAs and software.
