"sum" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- That is why men and women come on these schemes for such a paltry sum.
- "Clearly, the large numbers of uninsured cannot be helped by the paltry sums they are talking about."
- He reportedly brought it for a paltry sum of 1000 pounds.
- Somehow the money was suddenly beside the point and seemed like too paltry a sum in any event.
- Granted, $50 million is a paltry sum in the lost-property game.
- It seems a paltry sum today, but it was good enough to lead the field in early 1992.
- It will cost a relatively paltry sum, less than $20 million, he said.
- Maybe there's also an insult intended with the paltry sum being spent?
- "Do you think I would concern myself with such a paltry sum?"
- "Do you really think this paltry sum is what I meant by money?"
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