Sentence examples for great sum of from inspiring English sources

(That it will put a great sum of money in his pocket likely eases the sting).

This has cost taxpayers a great sum of money, hurt innocent people and undermined public faith in Britain's institutions.

Mr. Mandl was upset by the film and spent a great sum of money tracking down and purchasing prints of "Ecstasy" so that nobody would see it.

(Like just about every other reporter in Australia, Pryor is convinced the ranch's owner, Ross Blennerhassett, has been paid a great sum of money to keep quiet).

But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

Indeed, the whole thrill of Chloé seems to rest in the faintly masochistic idea of paying a great sum of money for clothes the baby sitter was wearing around 1975.

What makes the current crackdown different is not that any great sums of money have been involved.

Stopping the intra- and interstate transport of guns by straw purchasers can net great sums of money, not to mention public acclaim.

His expenditure of great sums of money on this enterprise and his innovations in taxation and legislation eventually brought about a grave challenge to his rule.

He claimed tuberculosis is now costing the NHS great sums of money – a disease he said was coming from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Some were wise tribal leaders who issued forth powerful incantations, all of which included the words "sue," "willful and reckless," "harmed my client" or "billable hours" that caused others to disgorge great sums of money in their direction.