Sentence examples for a colossal sum from inspiring English sources

Casey is paid a salary of fifteen thousand euros a month (tax-free), a colossal sum for a Vatican employee.

This is a colossal sum, equivalent to 11% of the emerging markets' combined GDP in 2013.

With no way to pay such a colossal sum, the family moved to Jodhpur.

Even if the lower estimate is right, it is still a colossal sum.

My idea was that Fischer would turn down the Hartston match but might play a clock simul for £25,000, a colossal sum then for such an event.

VIP tickets cost 4,000 Birra (£200), a colossal sum for most Ethiopians, though much of the audience were students with free tickets.

This seed epicarp constitutes a colossal amount of obnoxious waste.

"When I visited the city courts in Quetta, Baluchistan, a majority of the people with whom I spoke outside had cases which had been pending for more than five years, and had spent more than 200,000 rupees [$4,500] on legal fees and bribes a colossal sum for a poor man in Pakistan".Many therefore turn to tribal courts, or to the Pakistani Taliban in areas where they are strong.

Why has Pfizer been fined the colossal sum of £84.2m over a drug it makes to control epilepsy seizures?

But the project had cost him the colossal sum of £15,000 and within a decade he was broke.

Yet a report from Morgan Stanley – not usually the type to stick the knife into a flagship government policy – lays bare how this colossal sum has been almost entirely wasted.