He nervously proffered a receipt and the small sum of money I had paid for the books, asking for them back.
He needs a new pair of crutches – his old-fashioned wooden ones are an uncomfortable way to get around – so when he calls to thank us for the small sum of money we gave him to purchase new ones, I'm not surprised.
They found that the 13-year-olds who wanted the smaller sum of money at once were 32% more likely to be convicted of a crime during the next 18 years than those children who said they would rather wait for the bigger reward.
Many will have considered the small sum of money they pay WhatsApp to be an insurance policy against this kind of thing; – after all, the ethos of the service was always "no ads, no games, no gimmicks" – but despite denials, that ethos may have changed slightly since Facebook acquired it in February 2014.
On one hand, the emotional torture of having to testify was not worth the small sum of money I got, and could never undo what had been already been done to me.
After all, the small sums of money involved may seem trivial next to the trillion dollars in outstanding student debt or other instances of steep inequalities.
Eastern Europeans with little experience of housing and integrating refugees will hardly be placated by the small sums of money on offer.
Nor should we equate the small sums of money lost to HMRC through cash-in-hand transactions with the billions of pounds deliberately funnelled out of our economy each year through systematic corporate tax avoidance.
He was surviving almost solely on an allowance provided by Engels and on the small sums of money he earned as the foreign correspondent for a newspaper in New York.
Then there was the carpenter in East Hampton, N.Y., who called to say that his overtime from building second homes for the rich could allow him to send the family a small sum of money each week, or, if they find a permanent apartment, to fix it up free.
With the aid of a small sum of money from his distant relative the Chief Rabbi, Adler got together the money to travel by steerage to New York, with his infant son Abrom, Alexander Oberlander and his family, Keni and Volodya Liptzin, and Herman Fiedler, among others.
