Sentence examples for for a modest sum from inspiring English sources

Mr. Jaquith sold his interest in First Hanover for a modest sum.

Couples would buy Eh'häusl for a modest sum and be granted the right to marry.

We learnt this week that for a modest sum it will become possible to book a corner on a space rocket for a little parcel of one's own.

SocialNet was soon acquired for a modest sum by a company called Spark Networks, which now owns the religious dating sites JDate and ChristianMingle.

He is interested in the welfare of his peasants & is doling out the royal lands to them for a modest sum.

The commission is studying the policy of Norway, where all fish must be landed, and over-quota fish are bought by the state for a modest sum.

Thanks to producer Mark Carliner, moreover, the production costs of nearly $10 million--a modest sum for a theatrical movie but absolutely soaring for TV--are visible on the screen.

Signed for around £1.5m from Chelsea last summer, the Dutchman's arrival for such a modest sum represented quite a coup - not to mention a ringing endorsement of the club's continental style recruitment system masterminded by the football director, Lee Congerton.

This is a Godolphin horse, bought in Kentucky for quite a modest sum by their standards ($140,000) and officially 5lb well in with a penalty for his Chelmsford success a fortnight ago.

For such a modest sum CBS acquired a show that has generated national discussions in homes and offices, endless reports on television news programs, cover articles in national magazines and front-page reports in dozens of newspapers.

Officials said the fund had about $200 billion available for loans — a modest sum compared with the cost of the banking bailouts being rushed through by the United States, Britain and other European countries, but enough to stabilize the likes of Iceland or Ukraine.