This vast expenditure of money had a ruinous effect on the economy of Japan.

But you're talking about a vast expenditure," Mary Catherine said.

The vast expenditures necessary to diversify the edge could go to helping the center cities hold.

The stated purpose for such vast expenditure was to make the discoveries that would restore the future of humankind.

The operation would require a vast expenditure of Hansa resources.

This dam was not constructed, in spite of the vast expenditures already poured into the project.

Seems a vast expenditure of manpower, a waste of time.

The effectiveness of this vast expenditure on prisons is sharply debated.

All this, at vast expenditure of effort and of cash.

This land is increasingly being abandoned and the European Union' s vast expenditure does not go far enough towards meeting the needs of the farmers.