Sentence examples for contract sum from inspiring English sources

The second hypothesis was that landowners plan to comply and consider monitoring increasingly fair as the contract sum increases.

The first hypothesis was that landowners may plan not to comply if optimal, which makes monitoring increasingly unwelcome as the contract sum increases.

The hypotheses were tested using a discrete mixture RPL model, where three parameters were estimated for an interaction effect between monitoring probability and contract sum (one fixed to zero and two varied freely).

A forward crossvalidation regression analysis is used for the development of the model for actual construction time forecast when client sector, contractor selection method, contractual arrangement, project type, contract period and contract sum are known.

Both free parameters were positive and significant, indicating that landowners tend to find monitoring less of a negative feature, the higher the contract sum – suggesting that a group of landowners show social preferences.

Regression models are also developed for forecasting the actual construction time and cost when client sector, contractor selection method, contractual arrangement and project type are known while contract period and contract sum are estimated.

More than $5 million of the contracted sum has been paid out, the newspaper reported.

Frances O'Grady, the TUC general secretary, said: "Zero-hours contracts sum up what has gone wrong in the modern workplace.

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Zero-hours contracts sum up what has gone wrong in the modern workplace.

Then, in the summer, when Adebayor was again linked to West Ham, he demanded that Levy pay up the final year on his contract – a sum of £5m – to allow him to join them as a free agent.

FirstGroup won the contest with an offer to pay the government £13.3bn over the 15-year span of the contract, a sum underpinned by assumptions about passenger growth and inflation that had been vetted by the department.