Sentence examples for colossal bill from inspiring English sources

Spending just four years in care could therefore equate to a colossal bill of £156,000.

Marbury wondered how to control food and drink orders, anticipating a colossal bill.

To make matters worse, the tax authorities slapped on the group a colossal bill, ordering it to pay 1.42m yuan ($207,900).The organisation, the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI), is so well known among Chinese NGOs and so prominent in civil-rights cases that the government seems wary of confronting it directly.

"China won't go for anything that looks like it could lead to the end of the regime, because the alternatives will either be a U.S.-dominated peninsula, or a regime collapse with a colossal bill that China will have to pick up," he said.

They will be expected to foot colossal bills for their parents' pension and health costs.

The inability to pay those colossal bills is dragging down the economy, here and all across the world.

The colossal tax bill can be traced back to Mark Zuckerberg's desire to keep Facebook from becoming a public company.

The shrimp cocktail had four firm shrimp that lived up to their billing as colossal.

Billed as "colossal" on the menu, one crab cake of ordinary size came dense with crab and only a modicum of bread crumbs; rémoulade was served prettily, in an endive leaf.

I think it's only fair that as a small gesture of good will to the irascible taxpayers who have to foot the bill for the colossal financial screw-ups of extraordinarily well paid bank officers, any bank that accepts federal bailout money is no longer allowed to charge any fee for any ATM in its control.

The nation, which is close to broke, spends over a quarter of its GDP on the fuel and pays colossal subsidies to keep energy bills affordable.