The tax was advertised as the best way to pay for increasingly expensive social services.

The program has become increasingly expensive every year, and tends to be set on larger stages each time.

The traditional London town house was becoming increasingly expensive to maintain.

It may turn out that even a disciplined system will prove increasingly expensive.

"The cost associated with not filling a job in time becomes increasingly expensive," she said.

Most families now need two incomes to pay the bills - and child care is increasingly expensive.

"It's increasingly expensive to store and preserve works of art," he says.

It is becoming increasingly expensive to be poor in America.

Over the years the airfield became increasingly expensive to run.

In recent years especially, the system has become increasingly expensive to government programs, with almost no oversight, the study found.