Sentence examples for high sum from inspiring English sources

He said the poison cost an "incredibly high sum" of money.

The design of the Bank's high sum notes – from £5 up to £1,000 – had remained unchanged for almost a century and the technology used to produce them had been similarly static.

But it may also be seen as the next YouTube – bought for what seems like a ridiculously high sum, only to thrive so well that price looks like a bargain a few years down the line.

After the judgment, delivered at the high court in London, Paul Vickers, group legal director of Trinity-Mirror, MGN's parent company, said: "We consider the fine of £75,000, particularly when you take it together with the costs, to be quite a high sum but we accept it's fair and proportionate.

Second, Athens had assessed Melos at the high sum of 15 talents in the context of the (admittedly optimistic) general increase of 425; there was a fugitive sense in which Melos, which did not pay this exorbitant sum, could be seen as a recalcitrant subject.

This observation can be used to achieve very high sum rate values while decreasing the size of the search tree.

Camel racing is popular and good racers, mostly females, often sell for high sums.

Any houses associated with the post-superstardom Beatles that come on the market tend to fetch high sums.

"These extremely high sums are, of course, attractive to criminal organizations since they offer a suitable opportunity to launder money".

In the 17th century, privileged medical patients paid very high sums not to drink from skulls, but to drink the skull itself.

Altmann said there were risks that people would be offered poor value and charged unfairly high sums to cash in their annuity.