Few complete bodies were subjected to this treatment as it was a time-consuming and expensive exercise.

Driving gold rods into the ice was an expensive exercise, and so far it had achieved little.

This could prove to be an expensive exercise and a lengthy one as well.

Building one of these vehicles is an expensive exercise.

If they didn't, finding out would be a messy and expensive exercise.

Fishing has therefore become a very expensive exercise to the ordinary Tuvaluan.

The Pentagon has been willing to give up the expensive military exercises for some time.

Even if all the estimated 1000 deaths a year from cervical cancer could be eliminated that is still a very expensive exercise.

To go down one in seven is a very expensive exercise.

It can begin to rely more on reserve forces and reduce the frequency of expensive military exercises.