"sum" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Fogg persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad.
- Dana alleged that Roach had corruptly received from Robeson the excessive sum of $700,000 to refit the Tennessee-$300,000 for the new engines plus a $400,000 scrap value for the old.
- This approach is to be followed where the demand is for an excessive sum.
- How do we know if other school districts have not or are not spending excessive sums of money on transportation for students with handicapping conditions?
- We demand the right to borrow excessive sums in the property market.
- "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for them?"
- Presented by the architect Dermot Bannon, the show aims to improve the living conditions of his clients by designing and adapting their homes without spending excessive sums of money.
- The literary style of the additions is judged to be un-Jonsonian; Henslowe paid Jonson several pounds for his additions, which has seemed an excessive sum for 320 lines.
- We are not talking here about excessive sums of money, but in terms of amounts that would still leave room in the flexibility reserve for other measures.
- In short, this is not an excessive sum: it is a necessary investment in our long-term security.
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