Sentence examples for sum at the time from inspiring English sources

To house the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the world's first ongoing institution for global governance, which emerged from the Hague peace conferences, Root's friend Andrew Carnegie spent $1.5 million, a vast sum at the time, to build the lavish Peace Palace at The Hague in 1913.

Each fighter was guaranteed $5 million, an extraordinary sum at the time.

Visitors were charged fifty cents — quite a considerable sum at the time — for a viewing.

Unsurprisingly, audiences loved her and she would often make around $80 a session - a pretty decent sum at the time.

He turned down multimillion-dollar offers, and demanded a hundred million dollars, an unprecedented sum at the time.

It cost $1 million, an amazing sum at the time, the equivalent of about $19 million today.

The cost of inclusion ranged from $1,500 to $9,000, princely sums at the time.

Length of treatments that were more than a year apart (n = 66) were summed at the time of the later treatment.

She sold her first novel for $5,000, a sum that at the time she thought would last "until about now".

Losses from the acquisition are "still in the same zip code" as the sum envisaged at the time, says John Stumpf, Wells's chief executive.

In 1990 he bought Mondrian's 1925 Tableau Losangique for £5.7m - a sum that, at the time, was twice the annual acquisition budget for the Pompidou Centre.