"expense of services" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to the cost or amount of money spent for a service or services. For example: "The expense of services provided by the plumber was surprisingly high."
Polling data suggests that voters still strongly resist the idea of tax cuts at the expense of services.
Yes, a new district does bring benefits, although it can be at the expense of services for the wider community.
In a speech yesterday, Brown said: "Those organisations found to be squandering public funds on over-generous salaries for officials, at the expense of services for people, will be named and shamed".
But this should not be at the expense of services for women and children, who make up the vast majority of high-risk cases and are the most likely to be killed.
The council said it understood the need for the trust to make savings and would try to help, but not at the expense of services.
SiriusXM [told the Copyright Office] that requiring statutory services [like SiriusXM] to pay under the statutory license for recordings currently protected under state law would provide an undeserved windfall for recordings created and paid for more than 40 years ago, at the expense of services like Sirius XM.
Representative José E. Serrano, a Bronx Democrat, said that he was deeply concerned about the number of Bronx branches of the list and that cost cutting should not "come at the expense of service to the people of the Bronx".
The union said, "This decision is also very good news for consumers who deserve high-quality telecom services and for shareholders who want their investment to grow through growing the business and generating revenues -- not just slashing costs at the expense of service quality".
It's probably true, given the relatively low income of its customers, who therefore care about prices above all, that Wal-Mart's most profitable strategy is the one it has chosen: low wages, high turnover, and low prices at the expense of service.
But not at the expense of service.
In the past, the treatment-oriented nature of the health care system had been criticized fiercely for not taking into account preventive services at the expense of curative services.
