Sentence examples for sum of roughly from inspiring English sources

While researching and writing the book, Kavenna was advanced, in instalments, and before tax or her agent's commission, a sum of roughly £10,000 a year.

I was offered a – to me, miraculous – five-figure deal by Penguin". While researching and writing the book, Kavenna was advanced, in instalments, and before tax or her agent's commission, a sum of roughly £10,000 a year.

A notary conducts all home sales in Corsica, and buyers pay a lump sum of roughly 10 percent of the sale price to cover the notary fee, stamp duty, land registration and other administrative fees, Ms. Connolly said.

Based on the same earnings calculation as above, he or she would receive a less-impressive sum of roughly $7,200.

The only other movie hitting theaters nationwide this weekend, the Sylvester Stallone action flick "Bullet to the Head," will likely start off with a weak sum of roughly $7 million.

But given the negotiations in Washington to avert the double blow of expiring tax breaks and automatic spending cuts next year, taking the lump sum of roughly $327 million, before taxes, may now be the best move, says Matthew Goff, a financial adviser in Houston.

Second, instead of the 3percentt annual wage increases of the last contract, negotiated in 1999, workers will receive lump sums of roughly the same value in the first two years of the contract, a 2percentt increase in the third year and 3percentt raise in the fourth year.

The committee also voted to terminate the public financing system, which provides major party presidential nominees with a lump sum grant of roughly $94.14m in the general election.

He paid up Lord Carnarvon's debts and settled on her a sum of £12,000 (roughly $1.5 million in today's currency) a year.

Though he received a lump-sum settlement of roughly $3 million from the Saints after he was fired last year, Ditka recently reduced the price of the home he is selling in the Crescent City.

Such funds hold vast sums of money: roughly $7.8 trillion as of June 30, according to data from the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.