Sentences with phrase «quite big sums»

I've actually turned down two quite big sums of money as they didn't fit my profile and although there's no denying I would have needed the money, I feel proud of myself for doing that.

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Another great excerpt from Nina Teicholz's The Big Fat Surprise sums up the Diet - Heart Hypothesis» failure quite nicely:

Nina Teicholz sums up the situation quite nicely in The Big Fat Surprise: Why Meat, Butter, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet:

While a $ 10 - per - tablet bounty may not sound like all that big of an incentive, remember that the tablet market is exploding, and those tenners could quickly add up to quite a hefty sum.

However, it's quite difficult to amass that big lump sum to generate enough passive income to live on.

From what I have seen so far it looks like an accomplished racer but one of my biggest issues with the game was summed up quite well by Mrs Folken24.

It is my quite long experience (> 40 years) that the combination of geologists and engineers is extremely productive, bigger than the sum of the individual parts

$ 440 billion is still quite a large sum considering that National Energy Bureau division chief Liang Zhiping was recently quoted as saying that a sum of $ 190 billion was needed to realize China's 2020 renewable energy targets, but more consistent than the forecast by New Energy Finance last year that $ 398 billion (or $ 268 billion excluding big hydro) is needed.

Especially important are a) No explanation has been given that sufficient back - up has been provided to deal with big gaps in the solar and wind resource, and there are good reasons to believe that the provision is quite inadequate (e.g., in Fig. 23), b) Embodied energy costs do not seem to have been taken into account, and c) There are several major cost factors that have not been included in the sum stated.