Sentence examples for a comparable sum to from inspiring English sources

Its beleaguered president, Sepp Blatter, doled out $100m after protests rocked Brazil during the 2013 Confederations Cup – and a comparable sum to South Africa after the 2010 World Cup.

As we speculated yesterday, founder Max Levchin did the best out of the sale, making a comparable sum to the one he made from PayPal – proving once again the value of investing in your own idea.

In the Wall Street Journal, Jennifer Maloney reported that an upgrade of stacks at the Library of Congress has cost tens of millions of dollars, a comparable sum.

"If we say Turkey has indeed spent €7bn over the past few years, then in turn, that would mean the EU should also shoulder a comparable sum," she said at the close of the talks.

Dr Ghada Karmi London Missing from your report (£7bn pledged to provide humanitarian aid for Syrians, 5 February) is any mention of the very pertinent fact the west and their allies have spent a comparable sum of money escalating the war that has created the humanitarian crisis in the first place.

In 2008, after Barack Obama gained the nomination, Nemazee raised a comparable sum for him.

The owner of a three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath single-family home built in the 1920s pays $2,400 to $3,000 a year in taxes, a sum comparable to rates in Ozone Park or Woodhaven, but slightly lower than in Kew Gardens.

The I.O.R., one of the main revenue sources, has only some six billion dollars in deposits and assets; the real-estate assets of the Catholic Church worldwide have been estimated at two trillion dollars, a sum comparable to the G.D.P. of Russia, India, or Brazil.

Not a sum to be sniffed at.

Gaza now faces a comparable plight to that of Darfur.

To make the four scales (patient involvement, information, patient needs and overall satisfaction with involvement in care) comparable, values were calculated by converting the sum to a percentage of the maximum possible score (100%).