The debt the government assumed was over $2 billion, a massive sum at the time, but during the boom years it seemed payable.

I am afraid that the local production - certainly at this early stage - is only in low numbers, so there won't be any massive sums involved.

Japanese companies have massive sums invested in Europe and America.

Over the years this has been changed to raising massive sums to fill gaps in the city's budget.

The event raised the then massive sum of £3,000 with some change.

Was this woman so rich it took a week for the bank to assess the wrong number on such a massive sum?

We have to be supportive, but we don't start pouring in massive sums of money before they have a program.

He acquired massive sums of Danegeld through the raids.

It also gives capital massive sums from State coffers in the form of subsidies and incentives for 'green development'.

But it is unclear where these massive sums would come from.