Sentence examples for doing a sum from inspiring English sources

Stop bludgeoning it every time you finish doing a sum.

He says, sometimes for you the saying is a kind of working out, like doing a sum on a bit of paper.

9.58pm: Jonathan Ross does a sum up, says everyone's a winner, thanks the audience, says it's been a fantastic year for film.

The stock is trading around $14, but when I do a sum of the parts valuation, I come up with $19 a share.

There must be a scientific formula to work out how much weight each climber or trekker would lose due to the effort, so do a sum and charge heavily for the unaccounted losses".

Because if you do a sum of the parts of IAC as against a private market value of any of these assets, and particularly Ask, I don't think anybody ascribes any meaningful value to Ask.com".com

Secondly, he says, Hawking's calculation does a sum over all possible idealized black hole locations and all observers in the universe, but the results don't seem to apply to a specific black hole and a specific observer.

Especially if they have, as some football fans do, a tidy sum riding on the outcome.

Whereas to hate literature is to be deemed uncultured, it is cool to hate maths and fine to throw one's hands in the air when asked to do a simple sum.

"I did a quick sum on the numbers being presented and it told me it could run at a reasonable speed for 20 years on a single AA battery.

Or try to do a maths sum in your head, like 981+277.