Sentence examples for whopping sum from inspiring English sources

"The whopping sum of $9,000 for both," Ms. Tischler reports.

Even taking into account that this figure includes in-kind services from the companies involved, it's a whopping sum that occasions envious glances from other American orchestras.

It's a whopping sum (the Pulitzer is $10,000), and no doubt the trust thought it couldn't miss by handing the award — nicknamed "the Mimi" — to Kushner, who certainly qualifies as a "distinguished playwright".

From there, Holden, who was born in Scotland but grew up in Houston, returned to the U.S. and signed with his hometown club, the Dynamo, for the whopping sum of $30,000.

Banamex says it lent Oceanografía $585m, which is a whopping sum for an individual borrower.When a government audit prompted the suspension of Oceanografía's work for Pemex in February, Banamex checked the invoices against which it had lent to Oceanografía with Pemex.

That was a whopping sum, even for boom times, even if it was pumped-up Microsoft paper and analysts have wondered why.

Some mediums demanded whopping sums and limits on what could be asked of them, all of which were turned down.

Although banks have already written off whopping sums over subprime mortgages, they are vulnerable to yet more hits.

But when the 1,700-seat 1,700-seatwas built in 1903 for the then-whoplayhouse of more than $1.5 million, it was an exquisite Art Nouveau jewel built

"People shouldn't be forced into selling their property, they should be seduced into selling their property by a whopping big sum of money".

I recall the Duchess of Devonshire explaining, with much regret, that on the death of the previous Duke, the state had taken a whopping great sum, which had cut harshly into the fabulous Chatsworth estate.