The part of a sentence "except the cost" is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
It is commonly used to indicate an exception to a statement or situation. You can use it to specify that something is not included in a cost or price mentioned previously. Example: "We offer a variety of packages for our vacation tours, including accommodation, meals, and transportation. However, additional activities such as water sports and spa treatments will incur extra charges, except the cost of snorkeling gear which is included in the package."
Unlike baseball, movies have nothing that is quantifiable except the cost of production and the box office.
And the same lack of financial incentive applies to the insurer, who has little to lose except the cost of the treatment denied.
"It is a perfect political movie; nothing has changed except the cost of political ads and the size of the telephones," said Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., the executive producer of the new NBC political drama "Mr. Sterling".
In detail, all types of information sheets scored on a comparable high level except the cost comparison sheet which considerably lagged behind.
Sometimes transportation is available, making it possible for families to go – except the cost is prohibitively high – especially for people trying to survive on $2 a day.
Because all 211 children were referred by the LHWs for treatment, 98.83% of the cost (except the cost of the first dose of cotrimoxazole) was borne by the household.
For instance, Wilfred Cantwell Smith argues that "except at the cost of insensitivity or delinquency, it is morally not possible actually to go out into the world and say to devout, intelligent fellow human beings [that] we believe that we know God and we are right; you believe that you know God, and you are totally wrong" (Smith 1976, 14).
The service is free except for the cost of the call and is definitely worth it.
The debt had to be reduced "at any cost," he said, "except at the cost of stagnation and recession".
(He will not say how much the signs, which are made in Tel Aviv and China, cost, except that the cost of each is "in the thousands").
All of these dangers, these experts stress, are hypothetical — except for the cost, which by many estimates could exceed $1 trillion.
