Sentences with phrase «staggering sum»

A special election being held today to fill a Georgia House seat has drawn staggering sums of money, a barrage of advertisements and the intervention of the president as Democrats attempt to win a seat that Republicans have held since 1979.

Some of Nauman's works have passed from collector to collector for staggering sums.

Paris Saint - Germain are more than capable of paying staggering sums after their world - record move for Neymar last summer but United, at the moment, can not afford to lose Pogba with Michael Carrick due to retire while Marouane Fellaini's future remains uncertain.

Parsons challenged Davies» fees, and on taxation had the bill reduced from the then staggering sum of # 197,000 to a more tolerable # 67,000.

If oil is all that really matters in the economic story of the Harper years, I'm not sure how to fit certain staggering sums into the narrative.

You sold your first company, Patagon, for a pretty staggering sum.

«American investors pay staggering sums annually to advisors, often incurring several layers of consequential costs,» Buffett wrote.

Indeed, Wall Street «helpers» earned staggering sums.

Many convince themselves they are «too old» to embark on a second act, or that they require staggering sums of money to pull it off.

Each of these plans has features to stagger the sum assured and offer regular payment.

Lindsay's contract was extended an extra few days to permit her to play the role of Jaime Sommers — and when the two - parter was spun off into the Bionic Woman TV series in 1976, Lindsay, still bitter over her firing, demanded a then - staggering sum of $ 17,500 per program, and a percentage of the merchandising profits.

«A new class of buyer has entered the market and they're prepared to pay staggering sums for trophy pictures.»

In either case, you'll be parting with huge sums of money — eye - watering, staggering sums, in fact, if you're used to dropping your Lexus off at the dealership for a brake job.

Reuters reports that about 25,000 workers have quit PDVSA between January 2017 and January 2018, a staggering sum.

On the first day that the cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck allowed its customers to withdraw fiat money from the platform since a major theft last month, users took out a staggering sum of over 40 billion yen.

Where do the Arsenal players get the audacity to ask for those staggering sum during their contract negotiations when they can't even look competitive against their rivals.

Barcelona are prepared to pay up to # 140 million ($ 157 million) for Philippe Coutinho and hope the staggering sum, the second - highest transfer fee in -LRB-...)

County elections could cost an individual over # 25,000, a staggering sum for that period.

It is a staggering sum.

«This is a staggering sum of money and just exposes the chaos and lack of planning that has surrounded the Coalition Government's cuts to the BSF programme.

The anti-graft confirmed that the special raid yielded the recovery of a staggering sum of $ 9,772,800 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seven Two Thousand, Eight Hundred United States Dollars) and another sum of # 74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) cash.

The staggering sum — $ 1.018 billion — was a hair less than the $ 1.020 billion paid in FY 2016, City Comptroller Scott Stringer says in a report to be released Tuesday.

These staggering sums of money were uncovered after the Welsh Liberal Democrats raised the issue of payouts by the NHS due to poor care.

«The family had been contacted, but they told the abductors that even the entire family can't raise N1million and they were requesting for a staggering sum of N30million to secure his freedom

The city doled out the staggering sum in settlements and judgments in fiscal year 2016, with payments for injuries and other damages rising by 7 percent over the prior fiscal year, city Comptroller Scott Stringer reports.

The staggering sum is for just 4,890 kids — with councils spending # 4,000 a week on average per child.

A special operation conducted by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on 3rd February, 2017 on a building belonging to a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Andrew Yakubu in Kaduna yielded the recovery of a staggering sum of $ 9,772,800 and another sum of # 74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) cash.

She has raised just under $ 500,000 so far, a staggering sum in most municipalities, but not more than a decent haul in New York.

That fall NSF agreed to provide three - quarters of a billion dollars for construction and initial operation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative — a staggering sum in the modest - budget world of ocean exploration.

The DOE's wind report put the price tag for a national backbone at $ 60 billion — a staggering sum, at least until various federal bailouts started to come along last autumn after the stock market plummeted.

Black scripts were known at the time for how well they're written — they have swift plotting, breezy characterization, and stage direction that compelled the reader to continue (and then offer some staggering sum of money).

Solomon and Anissa Listak, executive director of the recently founded Urban Teacher Residency Institute (UTRI), insist that investing in teacher preparation up front will save the staggering sums wasted by teacher turnover.

We spend a staggering sum, $ 400 billion a year, to run the schools we inherited from one hundred years ago.

Here's how they invested that staggering sum, as of December 31, 2009:

However, fast forward to 2017 and the total student loan debt in the U.S. is a staggering sum of over $ 1.4 trillion.

He has said that he thinks of art on three levels, «Oh,» «Oh My,» and «Oh My God,» and aims to collect only the «OMG,» for which he will wait years and pay staggering sums.

The exhibition brings together key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, including Belshazzar's Feast (c. 1635) from the National Gallery London, and Girl at a Window (1645) from Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as star paintings now overseas, such as The Mill (1645/8) from the National Gallery in Washington, which left Britain when it was sold to a US collector for the staggering sum of # 100,000 in 1911.

We'll see some staggering sums and some spectacular fails.

And U.S. Census Bureau statistics seem to indicate the problem is getting worse: while total law firm receipts increased from $ 225 billion in 2007 to $ 246 billion in 2012, receipts for work done for individuals declined 10.2 per cent over the same time period, a staggering sum of $ 7 billion dollars.

What a staggering sum.

The primary reason for this staggering sum is the payments glitch in Ulips upon maturity, driven mainly by agent attrition since 2010.

The combined value of their underwritten policies approached $ 19 trillion, a staggering sum that exceeds the value of the country's gross domestic product by several trillion dollars.

The staggering sum of money was raised through an «initial coin offering», which is basically like a Kickstarter for crypto - nerds.