Sentence examples similar to working out sum from inspiring English sources

He says, sometimes for you the saying is a kind of working out, like doing a sum on a bit of paper.

Basically, it's a carefully worked out sum of some very obvious parts; quite what they all add up to is difficult to say.

I felt rather less lucky when I worked out the sums.

However, I prefaced it by inviting them to my 60th birthday party in early October (sent out invites in July) so they could work out the sums.

NHS trusts and local councils have different systems of funding and they work under different rules: one of many unresolved questions is how trusts which can run deficits, and councils which can't, will work out the sums.

The study also found that two per cent of those polled said they needed to use a calculator to work out all sums involving numbers larger than 10, three per cent for numbers higher than 20, seven per cent for those over 50 and 13 per cent for numbers greater than 100.

"This is the year when they'll work out the sums - either these companies will make money or they'll go under".

The reason you do distributional analysis is to try and work out if the sum of your policies might have implications you haven't thought through.

This works out to the sum of the number of overcoupling interactions in which the compounds that are associated with a particular gene are involved, allowing compounds to be counted multiple times if they participate in multiple reactions.

He repeatedly attempted (and repeatedly failed) to work out simple mathematical sums; lost himself in a pair of mauve curtains; and confused the passing of seconds for months.

Because financial services and e-commerce companies tend to have better protection in place, Taussig says that only between three and five percent of their transactions are fraudulent; but given the volumes of money exchanged that can work out to significant sums of money.