Sentence examples for borrowed sums from inspiring English sources

Most of the victims were aged between 19 and 23, and typically borrowed sums of money between $1,000 and $2,000, according to state media outlet China Youth Daily.

Landsbanki, Kaupthing and Glitnir called in the administrators, while an astonished Icelandic population wondered why its government had allowed the nation's financial institutions to borrow sums that were equivalent to 10 times the country's GDP.

But inducing the firms in which they invest to borrow sums they will struggle to repay is not the only way in which private-equity firms can be careless with other people's money.Terra Firma bought Four Seasons for £825m ($1.3 billion) in mid-2012 fRBS RBS, a bank, which took control of the struggling business at the height of the financial crisis.

Rowntree has started working with three local authorities to allow pensioners with property to borrow sums of between £5,000 and £30,000.Whatever plan is eventually chosen, a separate study by the same organisation suggests the government should hit people up for the money as soon as they retire.

Customers would have to go through a 45-minute interview to check they would have a realistic chance of repaying the loan before being allowed to borrow sums of about £500.

Over the past year, telcos have borrowed huge sums to buy operating licences for the coming 3G (third generation) mobile phones.

Australian households have borrowed colossal sums of debt to finance an all-in bet on property speculation.

As people borrowed astronomical sums on their credit cards and from their homes, savings seemed to dry up.

Housing associations also borrowed huge sums from banks to buy chunks of land, forming joint ventures with mainstream builders.

Immediately before and during the Second World War, the U.S. government borrowed unprecedented sums to finance the military buildup, and the economy finally recovered from the Great Depression.

Investigators soon learned that Mr. Alvarado had borrowed tremendous sums of money -- tens of thousands of dollars -- from school employees, Mr. Chin included.