In the case of deflation, the promised sum buys more than expected.

If a nominal sum buys less now than it once did its value as a means of exchange has fallen.

The sum would buy Aringarosa power far more valuable than that.

This is a risky business - the firms need large sums to buy bonds and, often, to hold them in inventory.

Those sums buy a lot more time on foreign language stations than on English ones.

The rest of the video demonstrates how much that sum has bought.

He asked what that sum would buy in Westchester.

That sum will buy you 15 hot dogs at the cart just outside the Pierre.

One sum to buy the slaves, and the ship practically runs herself thereafter.

Yet such a sum can buy a priceless amount of personal satisfaction.