Sentence examples for a fair sum of from inspiring English sources

To prepare for the patent bar, I've already spent a few hundred hours and a fair sum of cash on review courses.

After Lee's home was burnt down by criminals, he lost almost all of his possessions and a fair sum of money.

After three months in rural West Africa, my blood and bones surely carry a fair sum of parasites, bugs and amoebas -- but they also carry something infinitely more interesting: memories from one year in rural Senegal that have now come to define me.

Remember that bones are worth a fair sum of money and collecting these could be a good source of income.

Why not a fair sum for the mixing board that gave us "Billie Jean"?

A fair sum for snow removal in all 5 borough is $100,000 an inch.

In Stone Harbor, Ms. McCormick of Coldwell Banker Otton, said that 25 years ago, teenagers and college students would have summer jobs cleaning rental properties on Saturdays, earning a fair sum for what amounted to a few hours' work on a busy day.

But Barclays, it is said, was asked for $4bn, versus its own analysis that a fair sum would be $1bn and $2bn could have been swallowed for the sake of certainty.

That's hardly high-tech, but it saves the families and the government a fair sum.

I think that's a fair summing up of the exhibition's intentions.

It was a fair summing up of a particular moment (there's more to come; this is part one of two), enlivened by old footage and the fact that three of the four rebels are still around (Hughes died in 2012) to offer necessary perspective, and odd memories.