Foreign investment is needed for expensive ventures, like the ambitious plan to produce natural gas for the California market.

Dining Out at restaurants can be a quick and cheap meal or an expensive venture.

Given that mining is an expensive venture to undertake, the returns are relatively low.

Every shuttle mission costs nearly $1 billion, making the repair mission an expensive venture.

Mischief and bad manners on the floors of the nation's stock exchanges are becoming expensive ventures.

'This paradigm research is an expensive venture,' Greg said.

The film, an expensive venture, was a blockbuster.

And the point I'm making is that even if there had been a completely peaceful resolution, this would have been a very expensive venture.

Consideration should be given to producing a recruitment video which nowadays is not an expensive venture.

Bombing oneself into the dark ages has been an expensive venture.