Sentence examples for stump up over from inspiring English sources

While Google's YouTube overpayment worked out well, that doesn't mean Page and co would stump up over the odds for Spotify in any bidding war.

In the first year of the programme, according to the Wall Street Journal, the firm drilled 19 wells; last year it was around 1,700, and Mr McClendon had to stump up over $457m.He did this mostly by borrowing: he admits to personal debts of $846m.

Ordinary Americans, for example, have already stumped up over $100m.

Some paid for their digital darlings with virtual credits won in the game, but others stumped up over $5 a time for their beaux.The rise of the social-gaming firms has not been without controversy.

The finance sector stumped up over half the cash for Cameron's party when it gained power in 2010.

The candidates to be pets.com have included "The Wedding Singer", for which investors stumped up over $11m; a Bob Dylan-inspired show, "Times They Are a-Changing" ($8.5m); and "High Fidelity, a musical version of a novel by Nick Hornby ($10m).

Investors seem happy to stump up.

But nobody has yet been willing to stump up.

– before users are asked to stump up $10 for a subscription.

The International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental organisation often criticised for its focus on fossil fuels, says the world will need to stump up about $23 trillion over the next 20 years to finance continued fossil-fuel extraction, but the prospect of much cheaper solar power and storage capabiliy may put investors off.

The licence was frozen at £145.50 until 2017 and the BBC agreed to stump up £345m a year to take over the World Service from the Foreign Office, help with the rollout of superfast broadband and much else besides.