The cost of the two wars so far has surpassed $5 trillion.

And with either approach, legal costs can easily surpass $5,000.

The total cost has surpassed a billion dollars.

With costs already surpassing a billion dollars, Al Jazeera is the most ambitious television network start-up in recent years.

(In some regions the costs would have surpassed $1 million.)

Should other communities in the region join in the plan, the officials said, the total cost could surpass $350 million for about 27,000 acres of undeveloped land.

Privately, some officials said they feared that the final cost might surpass $10 billion.

As a result the Kanes are learning that the costs of maintaining a waterfront home sometimes surpasses the original investment.

Families, usually grieving and vulnerable, discovered that the costs of burying a loved one could surpass $10,000.

The monstrance took seven years to create and its cost surpassed 15 million maravedís, of which Arfe received the stipulated 2,700 reales.