Sentence examples for be rich for a from inspiring English sources

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It reminds me of the old saw: "It is better to be rich for a hundred years than poor for a single day".

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For some people who have been rich for a long, long time, it is quite hard to make an impression".

The price/earnings ratio of 41 is rich for a company with dicey fundamentals.

A price of 27 times forward earnings is rich for a company whose growth is tapering off.

In some contexts, the content of 'rich' is (roughly) the property of being rich for a philosopher, while in others its content is the property of being rich for the CEO of a large company.

Sometimes the predicate 'rich' appears in sentences in which it has two (linguistic) arguments, as in 'George is rich for a philosopher'.

However, according to some views of this sort, a speaker who utters that sentence typically asserts a full proposition, such as the proposition that George is rich for a philosopher.

I'm rich for a reason, bitch!

Needs to be rich for the lobster.

The play is richer for a penumbra of mystery.

Any one of these storylines would be rich material for a complex, interesting play.

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