Sentence examples for amount promised from inspiring English sources

Each was given an allotment of land half the amount promised by the U.S. government on which to start a new and sedentary life.

But most frightening of all is the government's proposed reorganisation of the health service (costing £3bn, five times the amount promised for new cancer drugs).

Some 2,000 have pledged money but the amount promised so far does not come near the $2.5 billion needed for industry's share.

Despite announcing that it would be investing $750m in reconstruction in Gaza, the agency has received only a third of the amount promised by donors.

If there were a shortfall in income, they would receive the amount promised in full, with the French and English clubs absorbing any deficit.

The standard remuneration for enlisted men in the Union Army was $13 a month, and this was the amount promised the men of the "colored" regiments by both Governor Andrew and the War Department.

The amounts promised for a kidney, the donors said, ranged from $450 to $6,280.

Of the generous amounts promised at a donor conference in Kuwait a month ago, aid agencies have received little so far.

In some cases, the amounts promised are not final or are sealed by the court and therefore unknown.

Ms Charlesworth argues that while there are sizable differences in the amounts promised by the parties, "none will match the spending increases of the past or rising pressures on the system, estimated to be 4% a year above inflation".

The headline figures are pretty impressive: Developed nations have set aside an estimated $27.9 billion, a combined total that is only $2 billion shy of the amount they promised between now and 2012.