Sentence examples for dollars for something from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gaffney said, "We don't want to spend eight-something million dollars for something they can't deliver clear title to".

Their business plan calls for 2,000 machines in the next two years in ballparks, malls, airports, military bases — pretty much anywhere people might be willing to pop in a few dollars for something hot and kosher.

And speaking of Lemons, and of hands, which are attached to arms, here is a poster that was displayed at this year's Book Fair, of the cover of the book Tina Fey was reportedly paid six million dollars for: Something about this image stresses me out.

"Family Hearth Moves to the Backyard" (news article, March 21) was a perfect metaphor for our wasteful society: throwing away thousands of dollars for something that burns increasingly scarce fuel, pollutes the environment and provides almost no benefit to the user.

They said ok, "but our starting prices are around a million dollars for something like that".

There's only one answer to that – Facebook is paying out big dollars for something that must be depreciated over time.

"Steve wants to pay us pennies on the dollar for something we know has much greater value," she said.

My daughter describes it as "the guide for people not prepared to spend an extra dollar for something 10 times better" -- an exaggeration with a grain of truth.

"I don't want people who come here from different economies and pay top dollar for something to constantly raise the prices and drive out the working class," he said.

Then that player, 27-year-old Stephen Strasburg, who wasn't a top prospect but the top prospect before it all began, trading away a chance at top dollar for something even more valuable.

"I think it's probably a function of developers being accustomed to paying rock-bottom dollar for something that looks like what it looks like, and not really being able to stomach the premium for the nicer stuff," Mr. Cortes said.