Sentence examples for amount to a hefty from inspiring English sources
Although the school is well-funded by some of Germany's top companies, tuition fees for the programme amount to a hefty €50,000 ($60,430).
Its trade surplus in the three months to August was less than half its level a year ago (though its current-account surplus is still likely to amount to a hefty 6% of GDP this year, maintaining upward pressure on the currency).
An electronic ID card, a card reader and computer is all it takes.- The Icelandic scheme that allows unemployed people to keep their benefits if they take a job with an innovative start-up company: for a limited time the benefits amount to a hefty salary subsidy for the new employer.
The costs of transportation and time off work can easily amount to a hefty poll tax on low income voters.
Bert Ely, an economist, calculates that the current level amounts to a hefty 13.9% of the total credit risk in the non-financial sector of the American economy, and 49.8% of home-mortgage credit risk.Worries about Fannie and Freddie owe more to concerns about corporate governance and sheer size than to any evidence of poor risk-management.
He may not have known it and his decision to announce his retirement from one-day cricket before rather than after the tournament ended was contentious at the least, but Clarke's declaration still amounted to a hefty poultice on a gaping wound for cricket.
Foxworthy's stand-up fees amounted to a hefty $150,000 per gig.
Analysts for Citigroup note that the purchase price, if the deal is executed as announced Thursday, amounts to a hefty 18 times 2008 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
Don't think the team stopped at only one portfolio, however -- 150 are now on sale, amounting to a hefty potential fundraising fete of $4.2 million, reports The LA Times.
But if you think for a moment and do the math, you realize that it would amount to a really hefty tax.
In what could amount to a very hefty haul, Moscow thieves took a sledge to metal security shutters and then a glass case to grab twenty items including a Leica Pro Set with three lenses.
