Sentence examples for dollars after a from inspiring English sources

The now-finished novel, "We Are Not Ourselves", had been bought by Simon & Schuster, an American publishing house, for more than a million dollars after a two-day bidding war.

"OZO" brought in 70,000 dollars after a brisk face-off between two bidders.

In 1987, for example, central banks bought dollars after a two-year slide.

Beyond ethanol, a recent peer-reviewed study found that early-voting states received more federal dollars after a competitive election — so long as they supported the winning candidate.

In the case of "Scrappers," in which a couple of workers typically split a few hundred dollars after a hard day's work, it's heartbreaking, a naked depiction of working-class struggle.

SHOUTS & MURMURS satire describes several fictional cases, including that of a man who was awarded thirty-six thousafterollars after a driver failed to collide with his car, causing him to become a latent homosexual.

Analysts closely watch discount chains because when consumers begin spending discretionary dollars after an economic downturn, they typically do so at discount and value-priced retailers first.

And call me crazy, but if you are throwing my tax dollars after an industry, shouldn't the so-called "need" be based on– oh, I don't know– an economic reality?

Twelve hundred dollars, after all, will buy them a couple of nights at a good Paris hotel or three or four made-to-order shirts.

You majored in philosophy at Williams College and the University of Texas, Austin, and had $26,000 in debt — about $150,000 in today's dollars — after earning a Ph.D. Was that a sound decision?

In 1920, the Kansas couple, Harry and Andrée Hahn, sued the powerful art dealer Joseph Duveen for half a million dollars after he told a reporter that a portrait they owned could not possibly be a Leonardo.