Sentences with phrase «earning millions upon millions»

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(For example, he's calculated that a couple in the public sector earning $ 50,000 each per year will have pension savings totalling between $ 600,000 and $ 1.3 million each upon retirement, whereas a couple in the private sector earning the same salary will be left with $ 122,000 to $ 245,000 each.)

They knew that, for example, Dick Cheney earned $ 36 million from the oil field company Halliburton upon leaving to become vice president.

I seriously don't see how devoted Catholic's can keep putting their hard earned money in the collection plate to pay for the defence of this pedophile rapists and paying off millions upon millions in damages!

During his mayoral campaign last year, de Blasio promised to abolish the industry immediately upon taking office — a pledge that earned him significant support from horse carriage opponents, who helped wage a million - dollar campaign against one of his chief rivals, former Council speaker Christine Quinn.

DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort, upon whose memoir this film, written by Terence Winter, is loosely based, goes from two - bit broker on Long Island to major player, earning $ 49 million by the time he was twenty - six, mostly from bogus blue chip stock sales.

The total earnings of the film upon its debut include the $ 52.7 million it made during the weekend and the $ 3.35 million which were earned from Friday's midnight screenings.

Zanelli recently scored the fifth installment of Disney's «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise, «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales» which debuted at # 1 in the world upon release in May 2017, earning over $ 347 million in its first weekend.

I mean, some companies might happen upon random small income amounts, but it seems pretty reasonable to assume they'll earn (or lose) millions or billions, not thousands.

Star Wars originated in 1977 upon the release of the first Star Wars film later sub-titled as A New Hope which was created, written and directed by George Lucas with a budget of $ 11 million actually earned $ 775.4 million at the box office; securing its place in pop culture.

With 10 million Kinect units in 10 million homes worldwide, Ubisoft have a lucrative base to milk for every cent they earn build upon, with no less than nine Kinect titles well into development.

The Telegraph apologized for creating the false impression that Dr. Pachauri had been earning millions of dollars from his consulting work, allegations that climate change skeptics seized upon to question the integrity of the United Nations climate panel he leads.