Sentence examples for advance sums from inspiring English sources

In exchange, they were persuaded to pay expenses in advance, sums that sometimes amounted to as much as $400,000.

Publishers advance authors sums of money and take the vast majority of the profit until the advance is recouped.

Sources briefed on the matter say the total fines could eventually total $7 billion to $10 billion, and that to ease any financial pressure on the banks, the Swiss government might advance the sums and then seek reimbursement.

Five have gone on to win Nobel prizes, but no one really knows whether those juicy rewards really advanced the sum total of human knowledge.

When a fund sells Class B shares, fund distributors advance lump-sum commissions directly to brokers.

For his pains, Frank was paid two hundred dollars in advance, a sum that rose to just over eight hundred and seventeen dollars by the end of the year.

His father, Henry Somerset, 5th Earl of Worcester, advanced large sums of money to Charles I at the outbreak of the wars and was created Marquess of Worcester in 1643.

DeCarlo added that he felt "really, really leery" about paying Nida the advance lump sum because of the reality star's April 25 court date, which raised a concern the Bravo star could walk away with the money in the event of a possible conviction a week before the charity event.

In this system, employers or labour agents advanced a sum to workers, who would then have to labour on a ranch or plantation to pay off their debt.

Recent advances in sum-of-squares methods have enabled the algorithmic computation of Lyapunov functions for polynomial systems.

Geffen wanted fifty thousand dollars of this sum paid in advance — an amount that would assume sales of one million dollars.