Sentence examples for sum on a from inspiring English sources

The cost of climate change rarely appears as one neat sum on a ledger, it doesn't come itemised on your shopping bill, but it's exacted through trillions of tiny tolls and tariffs on almost everything you can conceive of: food prices, insurance premiums, defence budgets, welfare, utility bills, even the house prices Quentin's colleagues are so inordinately obsessed with.

For all its billions, Facebook makes a small sum on a per-user basis.

He says, sometimes for you the saying is a kind of working out, like doing a sum on a bit of paper.

Asked how he felt about spending such a large sum on a renovation, Mr. Rushmore said it was a fraction of the money that he gives to educational institutions.

It seems very impressive, when I look back on it.' Gross sold the book for $3,000 and Jodi spent most of the sum on a piano for her husband.

Mankiewicz came up with the figure of $30,000, and Mayer offered to advance him that sum on a new contract if he would swear a solemn vow never to gamble again.

In sum, ON is a new and controversial concept.

But when the sum takes on a specific structure it does not take on an extra part.

You would not have made back your parking fee and hot dog money unless you had bet a considerable sum on Mineshaft, a son of A.P. Indy.

He also spent huge sums on a Soviet-supplied arsenal.

Even the boss of a company the size of Tesco would struggle to command those sums on a guaranteed basis.