Sentence examples for lent in from inspiring English sources

Borrowers paid back a record £309m more than was lent in unsecured loans during August.

2009 The total amount lent in the UK by payday lenders reached £1.2bn.

Of the money China has lent in the region since 2005, 85% has gone to infrastructure, energy and mining.

The Fed says that the money it lent in these programs was paid back without generating any losses.

With interest at 2percentthethe amounts are nearly double the amounts lent in 1945 and 1946, the BBC said.

In financial terms, about £4bn is lent in the form of mortgages to householders buying homes under shared ownership.

Sweden's central bank is borrowing €3 billion ($4.2 billion) from the European Central Bank, in case it needs to shore up Swedish banks that lent in Latvia.

Not all of the £11.7 billion lent in the second half of 2003 was used to turn homes into rent-machines.

But in the early 1930s, the idea of reflation was controversial, mainly because bondholders enjoyed getting back 25 percent more than they had lent in real terms.

After all, gold is an unproductive asset, virtually without a yield (it can be lent in the market at a cost).

The loans will include £76 billion ($122 billion) for small and midsize enterprises, 15 percent more than the amount lent in 2010.