Sentence examples for staggering sums of from inspiring English sources

What is vital to recognize is that the NSA is collecting and storing staggering sums of communications every day.

Some auctions get attention for the staggering sums of money that change hands, others for their historical importance.

Banks lent staggering sums of money to homeowners with dubious credit, convinced that real estate prices could only go up.

But the major reason for the increased competition is probably the increased financial rewards; staggering sums of money are involved today, much of it generated by television.

The truly devastating secrets that Hanssen might have sold involve specific satellite intelligence collection capabilities -- because such revelations would have meant the waste of staggering sums of money.

Supporters of the government say it has reduced poverty and improved infrastructure, unlike some African nations that get staggering sums of foreign aid yet have little to show for it because of corruption.

The US negotiator Jonathan Pershing complained that some countries were asking for "staggering sums out of line with reality".

Why, then, has it sold for the staggering sum of £102.6m?

They have talent, they have grace and they have a staggering sum of superstition.

Few people know that the Batmobile started life as a concept car, the 1955 Lincoln Futura, built by Ghia in Italy for the then staggering sum of $250,000.

Smith comes bearing a bill of exchange, drawn upon the debt of a local merchant, for the staggering sum of one thousand pounds sterling.