Sentence examples for colossal amount of money from inspiring English sources

"We need to get to a situation where the U.S. doesn't lose us a colossal amount of money," Mr. Gulliver said.

One analyst said that he presided over "the most colossal amount of money, in proportion to the size of a country's economy, ever poured down the barrel of a gun".

"You have to remember that I shared my award," said Sir John Walker, who jointly won the chemistry prize in 1997, "so even though it sounds like a colossal amount of money, it isn't.

He told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "We were really concerned because when the announcement of doubling of the number of security personnel was made we looked at the breakdown of the costs and we saw that the G4S contract was going up from £86m to £284m, which felt like a colossal amount of money".

"This event will cost colossal amounts of money," Brezhnev wrote to one of his successors, Konstantin Chernenko, in a document that has only lately come to light.

Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, wrote to Clark, his former cabinet office colleague, warning that a series of deals for different industry sectors could cost the taxpayer "colossal amounts of money" in subsidies.

Yet since its foundation in 1976, the clinic has produced no peer-reviewed evidence that its wares actually work, and charges patients colossal amounts of money to undergo clinical trials, which is an ethically questionable practice.