Before or after depend essentialy on what's more important (more important has to appear first). So sometime it may be usefull to find another words to express a thinking, if this help to permit to locate most important words at first begin of a phrase. While people who like to see project be born would say: - Un projet certe onéreux Trying to place the `bad` work later as possible. People who find the project to expensive would say - Un coûteux projet Changing `onéreux` for `coûteux` as `Un onéreux projet` sound not well.