The phrase "expensive burden" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has a significant cost or is difficult to maintain. For example: "Owning a boat can be an expensive burden for those who cannot afford its upkeep."
It increases the risk of depression, dementia and heart attack – an expensive burden on the NHS.
And its taxpayers carry the far more expensive burden of government "parenting" of these children.
But the line could turn out to be an expensive burden for both the city and transportation agency.
But it is the citizens of Greece who are bearing the expensive burden of their glorious heritage.
But the conquest proved profitless and became an expensive burden, and in 1718 the Morea was returned to the Turks.
"But the fact is that it is an expensive burden for all patients, even those with private insurance and Medicare because it is not always fully reimbursed".
He said the hospital had changed its view of ambulance services and emergency rooms, once seen as expensive burdens.
In the United States, such moves would prompt many to denounce heavy-handed grabs of workers' pay and expensive burdens on employers.
Such a dream (or nightmare) already seems remote given the diversity of the 25 countries that are now members of the EU and the refusal of the poorer countries to be saddled with the expensive burdens of Franco-German welfarism.
The Market Neutral Fund is expensive as funds go, with a 2.5% annual expense burden.
The commission has become an "expensive regulatory burden for investors," said Daniel Frisa, a New York Republican who had been appointed by his party to review the S.E.C.
