I certainly hope this doesn't come at an exorbitant cost to the taxpayer.

And their acceptance of the exorbitant cost of everything demonstrates that they are much more tolerant, or possibly richer.

Along the way our building committee became very discouraged about a number of complications, especially the exorbitant cost.

Then there's the exorbitant cost of the yacht — $300m or so — the maintenance and the issue of where to 'winterise' your vessel.

Anyone not so consumed will have their eyes closed, possibly in an attempt to forget the exorbitant cost of their ticket.

The rent was the exorbitant fee of 20 pounds per annum and many members were unhappy with this.

Visitors will have no option but to pay these exorbitant fees.

Of course, people who agree to pay such exorbitant fees also have to take some responsibility.

Those who have not been able to get on the housing ladder are at the mercy of all-powerful landlords and rental agencies with exorbitant fees.

And, as with banks, you can claim back six years worth of these exorbitant fees.

But there can be no excuse for the exorbitant price of snacks once you are inside.

Despite its exorbitant price and scant 12cm by 20cm by 5.5cm dimensions, celebrities can't get enough.

Bale will undoubtedly improve — but few could argue he lived up to his exorbitant price tag by the end of 90 minutes.

Aspirational and original clothes without the exorbitant price tags.

The exorbitant price of land in the densely populated satellite city inspired a solar energy company to propose using one of the last remaining available plots of land - the cemetery.

This was an exorbitant rate and few could afford the privilege of having their food with salt.

The samples may also be sold to desperate patients at an exorbitant rate.

The app gives people who cannot obtain an overdraft an alternative to borrowing at exorbitant rates.

It seems we are having our bills hiked up to exorbitant rates just to satisfy the needs of these people.

Unfortunately the banks realised many years ago that the same result could be achieved far quicker with penal charges and exorbitant rates of interest.

Imagine the anger a tenant must feel when presented with a large bill for extra charges on top of an already exorbitant rent.

Then someone will extract an exorbitant rent from a sibling with slightly too much relish, and there will be a tremendous row.

To afford the builders' exorbitant rents, tenants often had to sublet rooms, making the tenements into overcrowded and under-ventilated breeding grounds for disease.

Hidden fees and charges, unreasonable deposits, exorbitant rents — our unregulated letting agents industry elicits countless complaints from tenants and landlords alike.

Small government with its exorbitant rents for the little guy.

Their reward should be a decent but not exorbitant salary and an opportunity to graduate to a top soccer league club.

Still, its profit was significantly diminished because of her exorbitant salary.

Like it or not, too many arts organisations have grown too large and top-heavy, with exorbitant salaries to match.

I can't believe licence payers have to subsidise exorbitant salaries, pension pots and executive travel.

What are they actually doing to earn their exorbitant salaries and even higher expenses?

The total cost of the establishment was reported to be the exorbitant sum of 1.7 million francs.

Are clubs also at risk of creating problems by paying exorbitant sums to young players who may never actually go on to have professional careers?

The only winners here are the administrators who get their pound of flesh by charging exorbitant sums of money, while all about lose theirs.

They offer to do building or garden work then demand exorbitant sums for carrying out simple tasks.

Few individual players nowadays will add revenue at the turnstiles to equate with their high earnings, even though clubs charge their supporters exorbitant sums to watch their teams.