Sentence examples for respectable sums from inspiring English sources
And luxury brands like Bentley pay them respectable sums to appear in promotional videos.
Jimmy Carter's folkloric watercolors of home-town scenes sell for respectable sums to benefit the Carter Center.
They often invest respectable sums in computers and information technology but do not seem to reap the same productivity gains from it as many American firms, according to John van Reenen and Nick Bloom of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.In a study with John Dowdy of McKinsey, a consultancy, Mr van Reenen concluded that British managers are partly at fault.
Within days they agreed upon an advance in the high five figures, a respectable sum for fiction these days.
They are worth 50 pesos, or about $5 apiece, a respectable sum in this poverty-stricken rural area.
And he pocketed a respectable sum, at least $40,000, from a new business: leasing out the horses he keeps on his estate in Wellington, Fla.
He was offered a contract of £5,000 for the entire sequence, a respectable sum, payable in installments of £500 per book.
For Tate's point of view, it gets a respectable sum to recycle into its bigger (and much more successful) food ingredients operations.
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.
All this bodes well for the movie's awards season prospects because Oscar hopefuls as a rule stand a better chance of remaining in contention come ballot time if the movie has eked out a respectable sum at the box office.
He'll need more volume if he wants to sell out for a respectable sum to a larger agency.
