Sentence examples for respectable sum of from inspiring English sources

On our first day, we flew over the Grand Canyon in a helicopter, rejected three offers of prostitutes, saw Coldplay live, strolled the (fake) streets of Paris and Venice, watched a couple of movies and lost a respectable sum of money on roulette.

Since the company's launch earlier this year in New York, H.Bloom has attracted a respectable sum of investment dollars, raising $1.1 million in its angel round.

For Tate's point of view, it gets a respectable sum to recycle into its bigger (and much more successful) food ingredients operations.

Its worldwide box office numbers are a bit over $200 million ― a respectable sum for an original movie, but still far below that of the other films mentioned here.

(In other words, if Mr. Lucas were to collect, say, $50,000 from "Prayer" over the next decade — a respectable sum for a well-received new play — the Roundabout would receive $20,000 of it).

Within days they agreed upon an advance in the high five figures, a respectable sum for fiction these days.

He'll need more volume if he wants to sell out for a respectable sum to a larger agency.

He'll need more volume if he ever wants to sell out for a respectable sum to a larger agency.

Jimmy Carter's folkloric watercolors of home-town scenes sell for respectable sums to benefit the Carter Center.

And luxury brands like Bentley pay them respectable sums to appear in promotional videos.

He was offered a contract of £5,000 for the entire sequence, a respectable sum, payable in installments of £500 per book.