The phrase "at massive expense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is done or achieved at a very high cost, either financially or in terms of resources.
Example: "The project was completed at massive expense, leading to budget overruns that affected other initiatives."
Alternatives: "at great cost" or "at significant expense."
The High Line was constructed, at massive expense, in the 1920s to keep trains out of the way of pedestrians.
"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".
This was not the first time that Orbital's rockets have failed at massive expense to NASA and taxpayers.
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 as with most bullshit colonial myths, it's one that comes at the massive expense of the original users of the lands and waters.
The inevitability is if his new identity is revealed he would have to be given another one at massive public expense.
Japan, despite the giddy plunge of the stockmarket from October 8th-10th and the bankruptcy of a middling life insurer, Yamato Life, is confident that its financial system, recapitalised at massive public expense a decade ago, is robust enough to survive the latest shocks.Japan's money markets have gummed up far less than those in America and Europe.
Factoring in the massive expense of building new reactors the pair at Vogtle will cost around $15 billion—makes nuclear power even less competitive.
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?
