Even the death of Katherine Horton was reduced to a sum.
Her partner would be entitled to a sum equal to its valuation less deductions of about £150.
"He would enter your house and demand 5,000 taka," said a man still too afraid to give his name, referring to a sum of about $100.
One note will lead to a tune, a word to a sentence, a number to a sum, an equation to an answer - magic.
(After "Idol" became a colossal hit, the price of retaining Cowell, its unexpected star, rose to a sum that Carter puts at thirty-six million dollars a year).
"The police take 1,000 to 2,000 rupees from every driver," he said, referring to a sum of $10 to $20.
Earlier in the day, some ministers made clear their reservations about expanding the size of the region's firewall to a sum approaching €1 trillion.
For example, restaurants really need to accept credit cards if the price of a meal comes to a sum that only drug dealers carry in cash.
His success in righting a listing institution whose endowment had been drawn down before his arrival to a sum lower than the price of a single Jeff Koons sculpture seldom comes up anymore in conversation.
After months of litigation, Wilpon and Katz, as part of a settlement with the trustee, agreed to abandon their hopes of recovering much of what they insisted they were entitled to — a sum in excess of $150 million.
Very little progress was made on this conjecture until 1919, when Norwegian mathematician Viggo Brun showed that the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes converges to a sum, now known as Brun's constant.
