Sentence examples for sum at a time from inspiring English sources

In June 2009 Cristiano Ronaldo, a Portuguese footballer, was bought by Real Madrid for £80m, a record sum at a time when Spain's unemployment rate was 18%.

So far this year Japanese firms have spent over $71 billion abroad, a record sum, at a time when merger-and-acquisition deals have declined globally.But more than opportunism is at play, the firm insists.

In all the package will cost an extra $300 billion or so next year; a sizeable sum at a time when the deficit is forecast to exceed a trillion dollars.The deal certainly cheered America's economic soothsayers.

Investors often give them only relatively small sums at a time.

The investment illustrates China's ability to invest large sums at a time when other investors are limited by recession.

These were tremendous sums at a time when a well-paid worker was paid roughly $3 a day and the annual revenue of the federal government was a mere $355 million.

But love it or hate it — and there are compelling arguments on both sides — resistance is futile; adopting DCP will save the industry vast sums at a time when its business model is collapsing.

It is questionable whether carriers, even if they were willing to spend what's needed, can raise such huge sums at a time when the stock market is manic-depressive and junk bonds are in disarray.

It is questionable whether carriers, even if they were willing to spend what's needed, could raise such massive sums at a time when the stock market is manic-depressive and junk bonds are in disarray.

As a result, thousands of businesses are being deprived of substantial sums at a time when there are no alternative sources of financing.

The sum comes at a time of deep uncertainty in the book publishing world.