Sentence examples for a colossal sum for from inspiring English sources

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

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

That is a fraction of what has been pledged to Greece but represents a colossal sum for Cyprus, which has a gross domestic product of only about €18 billion.

That is a small fraction of what has been pledged to Greece, but is a colossal sum for Cyprus, which has a gross domestic product of only about €18 billion.

On a more basic rag trade level, the clothes for the show cost $35,000 to produce -- a pittance by the standards of a large design house, but a colossal sum for an independent designer -- and were all predicated on finding "the perfect piece of Battenburg lace".

This work finally halted in 1330 with the castle still not built to its intended height; by the end of the project, £15,000 had been spent, a colossal sum for the period.

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.

Loewenstein parted company with the Stones in 2008, after they rejected his proposal that they sell the band's assets for a colossal sum and wind down their touring and playing career.

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.