Sentence examples for colossal sum of from inspiring English sources

But the project had cost him the colossal sum of £15,000 and within a decade he was broke.

Why has Pfizer been fined the colossal sum of £84.2m over a drug it makes to control epilepsy seizures?

It happened when the broadcaster last year agreed the colossal sum of £4.18bn for five plum prizes in the Premier League's auction of rights for three seasons.

To get a measure of how far the Co-op Bank has fallen, consider this detail in Monday's documents: the colossal sum of £500m will have to be spent "in connection with the re-engineering of the bank's IT platform".

The total expenditure on the castle had soared to the colossal sum of over one million pounds (£817 million in 2008 terms) by the end of the project.

The Commons were told that the colossal sum of £160,000 was now required in new taxes, and arguments ensued between the royal council and Parliament about what to do next.

But the colossal sums of money they made went elsewhere.

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

As direct participants they would be in a position to make connections, between a debate about colossal sums of money, structures and outcomes.

Led by France and Germany, European countries have decided to spend colossal sums of taxpayers' money they cannot afford to heal mounting internal disparities they cannot conceal to shore up an edifice many believe cannot stand.

With governments around the world continuing to pump colossal sums of money into their plunging economies, a grand global experiment is under way: can the unprecedented spending provide not only a quick fix for the economic catastrophe but also the measures vital for dealing with global warming?