Sentence examples for illegal cost from inspiring English sources
"illegal cost" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a cost incurred from activities or decisions that are prohibited by law. For example, you could say, "The use of child labor resulted in an illegal cost for the company."
But the success, evidence suggested, came at a steep and illegal cost to delivery workers, mostly illegal immigrants from Fujian Province in China who testified they were paid $500 to $600 a month for working 70 to 80 hours a week, often less than $2 an hour.
Trump brought up the false claims during a meeting with congressional leaders last week, when he reportedly told them that 3 million to 5 million "illegals" cost him the popular vote.
Citing figures from two conservative groups, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Heritage Foundation, Mrs. Bachmann said illegal immigration cost the country $113 billion a year, with the highest costs coming from education.
Illegal drugs cost America $100 billion and 52,000 deaths a year.
Foreign Office officials have suggested that it might even be illegal, or cost many millions in compensation.
The latest HM Revenue & Customs data shows that the illegal market cost up to £2.9bn in 2012-13".
Illegal immigrants cost our citizens (British people) housing and of course jobs.
As Matthew Brzezinski's article (June 23) makes clear, the reason illegal drugs cost so much is that they're illegal.
Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers said the official estimate that illegal shelters cost $10 billion annually "is just the tip of the iceberg".
"We went into a war that was catastrophic, that was illegal, that cost us a lot of money, that lost a lot of lives," he added.
The government claims that illegal immigrants cost the NHS £330m ($535m) a year, though it admits that the figure is highly speculative.Reducing the right to appeal will probably do the most to make life more difficult for illegal migrants.
