"delicate and expensive" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe an object, person, or situation that is both fragile and costly. Example: The delicate and expensive vase was displayed in a glass case to protect it from any potential damage.
That made it ornery, delicate and expensive to maintain.
Nevertheless determination of heating values of straw needs delicate and expensive calorimeter, and is time-consuming.
On this drawing, these delicate and expensive styluses were used only for the brickwork of the rightmost wing.
That syrup, because it requires less boiling, becomes the premium, most delicate and expensive syrup: the light amber.
If it does, it is proof that something so delicate and expensive -- like Ewing's wrist -- can be fixed.
But an increasing number of doctors are performing delicate and expensive operations to allow women to continue to wear their favorite shoes.
Clothes weren't made out of actual china, clearly, but, with ladylike embellishment and lace, you can now resemble a delicate, and very expensive, Meissen figurine.
Protein drugs require living cells and a delicate and very expensive manufacturing process that pushes the cost of developing a new drug, even a look-alike, to $200 million to $300 million, according to Cowen.
Whereas the incumbent crystalline silicon solar companies essentially fabricate semiconductors that, like their cousins inside of computers, are rigid, delicate, and relatively expensive, thin-film companies deposit tiny layers of photovoltaic material onto substrates like glass.
They were laboriously constructed, exquisitely delicate, and greatly expensive to obtain: when Haüy's school first opened, it had a total of three books.
Condensers are a bit more delicate and generally more expensive, but are much more detailed, bright, and clear than similarly priced dynamics.
