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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the whole sum" is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to the total amount of something, such as money. For example, "We managed to raise the whole sum of $20,000 to build the playground."
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Interest is charged on the whole sum.
It took 102 payments until I'd paid the whole sum [with interest] of £1,224.
The whole sum of her being had a kind of corpse-luminescence in the darkness: stiff and mechanical, inhibited.
Stamp duty on a property costing £100,000 was definitely 1% of the whole sum in 1998, so £1,000.
It hardly helps a fund manager to have £5m flow in one day, and the whole sum to disappear only a few weeks or months later.
The bank has been accused of evading about £6.2m in tax, but Lebedev says the whole sum in dispute has been paid, suggesting that the raid was a personal attack on him by the authorities.
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The fact is, most people subconsciously know it all within their hearts but, due to pure pig-headedness, will continue to refuse to do anything about it - which, on the whole, sums up the entire British public.
They could be investing it much as their target-date fund manager did, or they could be taking the whole lump sum and buying an annuity.
The overall duration of the whole examination (sum of the three phases) was 11 minutes.
You pay the whole lump sum and the business is yours.
One is better advised to treat dao as a collective noun as the part-whole sum of ways.
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