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"I want to separate Rohit Bal from the House of Bal - in products as well as style, in expensiveness and expanse," Bal told Shefalee Vasudev in Mint newspaper.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

A pretext for your visit can be useful in distracting you from the single most scream-worthy fact about Switzerland: its fearsome expensiveness.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2010

As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell.

From Time Magazine Archive

The proportion borne by these city debts to the population shown by the per capita debt figures, gives an idea of the comparative expensiveness of different city administrations.

From Time Magazine Archive

One cannot meet them effectively by mere counter-insistency on war's expensiveness and horror.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry