Sentence examples for handsome sum of from inspiring English sources

"I sold it to my friends for the handsome sum of 50p".

The most famous example in business history is Henry Ford's decision, in 1914, to start paying his workers the then handsome sum of five dollars a day.

Not to her birth parents, Bella had learned, but with her nanny, who had received a handsome sum of money for them to settle comfortably in the countryside.

As spreads in credit default swaps for AIG whipsawed last year leading up to the September rescue, Goldman probably made a handsome sum of money.

First, Monster has paid a handsome sum of money for a company that offers neither a large user base nor coveted technological capabilities (as far as I can tell, these are simple CRUD websites built on Ruby on Rails).

When they lost Fraser Forster for the handsome sum of £10m, they turned to Gordon, a free agent, and he's as good, if not better, than Forster ever was.

That's because the owners of the film can still wring a handsome sum out of the 1941 release.

It is utterly silent, the kind of precious outdoor quiet that may one day require handsome sums of money to experience.

It is apparent that folks like Briggs and Rhee who trash teachers and denigrate their profession are paid handsome sums of money for really amateurish work.

IN April 1912, the surviving operator of the Titanic's wireless communications system was paid a handsome sum for his account of narrowly escaping death aboard the sinking ship.

Waddle and Majors could have easily hired them at a much lesser rate, but instead paid them a handsome sum for that time of one hundred dollars a month.