"daunting cost" is correct and usable in written English.
Example: The daunting cost of college tuition is making it more and more difficult for low-income families to send their children to college.
Corruption in construction drives up the already daunting cost of doing business in New York, experts say, and several construction executives said the investigation is beginning to rattle the industry.
One reason more New York women don't run for office is the daunting cost.
At the same time, ABC has generated a long list of 10 p.m. failures, at a daunting cost.
Hundreds of people signed up to blast into orbit in 2001, despite the daunting cost of ¥11.5m ($95,000) a head.If only the Japanese were willing to spend money on other things too, the country might not be so depressed.
But network executives said yesterday that the conviction that improvements were on the way, combined with the daunting cost of starting up an alternative service, had persuaded them to stay with Voter News Service.
Because of the daunting cost, and probably because of the involvement of producers like Mr. Spielberg and Mr. Chernin, Fox committed not just to shoot a pilot, which is the normal television process, but also to order a full first season up front.
In the case of many cancer treatments, this could amount to daunting costs for patients.
The $17 billion tunnels faced daunting costs and opposition from environmentalists and some Californians who saw it as another in a long line of water heists from the north by Southern California and Central Valley farmers.
Most of these organisations operate as traditional abortion funds, which help women pay the various and often daunting costs associated with terminating an unwanted pregnancy, or activist groups that work in various legal channels by doing advocacy and raising awareness.
Most of these organizations operate as traditional abortion funds, which help women pay the various and often daunting costs associated with terminating an unwanted pregnancy, or activist groups that work in various legal channels by doing advocacy and raising awareness.
Bloomberg's last budget also contains some daunting costs, left for the next mayor to resolve.
