Sentence examples for trifling sum from inspiring English sources
BMW, it emerged yesterday, paid the trifling sum of €299 to get the current cold front – named "Cooper" to advertise its Mini – before it started claiming lives.
Three months later governments were still arguing about where or indeed whether this money, a trifling sum in the scheme of things, should be spent.
But by way of easing them into this new world, £300m of "transition" funding was eventually set aside: a relatively trifling sum, but every little helps.
For that trifling sum, you get to sway the direction of Labour's future, and, if enough of you sign up — many minds with but a single thought — the outcome will be anything but a trifle.
For that trifling sum, you get to sway the direction of Labour's future, and, if enough of you sign up many minds with but a single thought the outcome will be anything but a trifle.
The Keidanren has called for better corporate governance, so perhaps Mr Toyoda feels he needs to set an example.Yet although ¥200 billion is not a trifling sum, Toyota did not go overboard.
Cosey ambled into Roberts' shop one day and, assuming his role of a W.P.A. house wrecker, showed him half-a-dozen items, which the avatar bought for trifling sums.
If these sums sound trifling, they're not.
These particular athletes are not in the Olympics for the money; the sums in question are, by their standards, trifling.
The sums involved - £80 million over three years - are trifling compared to the cost of Northern Rock in less than three weeks, or the value wiped off pension funds in three hours.
