Sentence examples for to a considerable sum from inspiring English sources

Planning fees, architect fees, business case preparation and EU funding disregarded, all amounts to a considerable sum.

Mr. Teeson said the museum had to raise a considerable sum not just to buy and restore the boat but to create an endowment to operate and maintain it and develop education programs.

But every state will still have to spend a considerable sum of its own money to sign onto the Medicaid expansion.

His experiences as a preacher of indulgences, especially between 1503 and 1510, led to his appointment as general commissioner by Albert, archbishop of Mainz, who, deeply in debt to pay for a large accumulation of benefices, had to contribute a considerable sum toward the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Arrangements were put in place for him to receive a considerable sum of money from Ukip if he failed to win the byelection triggered by his defection.

But Robins is not planning to invest directly in bricks and mortar; instead, he plans to put a considerable sum in The House Crowd, a crowdfunding business that invests money from groups of people into various properties.

Other informal phrases include "a pretty penny" to define a considerable sum of money, and "when the penny drops" to explain that somebody has finally understood something.

And she said she has had to spend a considerable sum on beefing up security after she and her husband were informed there was "a significant threat" against them, although she would not give any further detail.

By the late 1920s, his earnings from literary work amounted to £1,000 a year – a considerable sum in an era where TS Eliot's Criterion paid its contributors a princely £1 per 500 words.

And there is also speculation that the new administration in Washington would be loath to spend such a considerable sum to help Mr. Cuomo save face and improve his chances of becoming governor.

In his police interview, Harris said: "I also understand that she instructed a well known PR agent to sell her story to the media and that she is reported to have received a considerable sum for providing interviews.