Sentence examples for an impressive sum from inspiring English sources

It's an impressive sum, but only about two-thirds of its last effort.

Raising nearly $3 million in the first quarter, an impressive sum for an outsider, Dr. Dean led all candidates in contributions.

Even Nic Coward would concede that it is an impressive sum, enough to pay him for 360 years, but it is surprisingly easy to fritter away.

As chairman of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee, he raised $129.5 million for the midterm election of 2010, an impressive sum even by the standards of Washington.

Sycamore raised a first fund in excess of $1 billion, an impressive sum for a fledgling firm in a challenging fund-raising environment.

It's an impressive sum — amounting to about half its target's R.&D. and administrative costs – considering the eye-care company was already owned by notoriously stingy private equity.

The country music star, famous for songs like "How Do You Like Me Now?" and "Beer for my Horses," reached the impressive sum with lengthy concert tours, a lucrative endorsement deal with Ford Motor and a chain of successful restaurants that bare his name.

It was Mr. Lansky who sold Elvis his famous gold lamé jacket in 1956, for the impressive sum of $125.

The English Premier League sold three years of domestic TV rights this month, covering 2013 through 2016, for the impressive sum of £3 billion, or about $4.7 billion.

Many of that impressive sum of shots have been rather hopeful and indicative of a team running out of ideas or guile in the final third, where it is required most of all.

Based on the same earnings calculation as above, he or she would receive a less-impressive sum of roughly $7,200.