Sentence examples for the actual sum from inspiring English sources

The actual sum was not up for negotiation.

McKinsey said that number was false, and the actual sum was a fraction of that amount.

His organisation estimates that with annual inflation the actual sum handed over during 35 years will be £45bn.

"For the one sheet?" "Yeah, how much?" "Around seventy thousand," Michael said, though the actual sum was much higher.

Prosecutors claim that although the church claimed to have received around £1.85bn in donations between 2003 and 2006, the actual sum could be much higher.

In other instances, it is donor beware, as the budget for self-congratulatory ads to promote the philanthropy can be larger than the actual sum being given away.

The actual sums will possibly never be known outside of what Pérez and Leite said to one another.

But the bleak economic forecasts mean the actual sums will fall (pdf), by £80m in 2017-18 and by a huge £210m in 2018-19.

The argument is complicated by the fact that the standard resource is only indirectly related to the actual sums sent out to universities, or as Hefce puts it: "Standard resource is not, however, what we actually pay institutions, but instead can be thought of as a notional benchmark of what we think institutions' share of overall resources should be to reflect their teaching activities.

And it wants the budget set using the actual sums paid out, which are lower than the "commitments" in today's budget (that makes for some fuzziness in the British bid: it seeks to reduce the commission's request by between €100 billion and €200 billion, depending on who does the sums).

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