Her father threatened to sue Millais for her medical bills – which allegedly came to £56,a sizeable sum in the mid-19th century.
Furthermore, many financial experts have urged pension-holders to think very carefully before raiding their pension pot in order to buy an investment property, not least because withdrawing a sizeable sum could result in a hefty tax bill.
The Rhodes Must Fall movement said the statue of the man who was an ardent imperialist and left a sizeable sum to the college in his will, was representative of Britain's "imperial blind spot" and should be taken down.
While it's a sizeable sum to most people, in this room – filled with more than 1,000 bankers sporting black ties and quaffing champagne – £20,000 seemed paltry, particularly when it was coming out of the pocket of the great survivor of the financial crisis.
Since he became prime minister in 2013, Gunnlaugsson has overseen sensitive negotiations with the creditors of the three big Icelandic banks that collapsed during the 2008 crisis – while knowing, the leaked documents show, that his wife's offshore company, Wintris Inc, which lost 515m kronur (£2.8m) in the crash, was owed a sizeable sum from their bankruptcies.
And luckily for us, we were in the capable hands of Jonny Bealby, writer and originator of Wild Frontiers, one of the brightest new kids in the adventure travel playpen, and whose company pledges a sizeable sum from each trip to the victims of the disaster.
EVEN for a company with Walmart's heft, $800m is a sizeable sum.
In all the package will cost an extra $300 billion or so next year; a sizeable sum at a time when the deficit is forecast to exceed a trillion dollars.The deal certainly cheered America's economic soothsayers.
That was a sizeable sum at the time (the average UK house-price was around £3,000), but not life-transforming in the way the top American pay-out would be.
