Sentences with phrase «whopping sum»

Although these works often sell for whopping sums of money — Pollock's No. 5 fetched $ 140 million in 2006 — they have attracted many sceptics, who claim that modern artists lack the skill or competence of the masters before them.

Average of # 15m pales compared to whopping sums allocated by investment banks to their transformation

The New Patriotic Party is claiming some journalists have been paid whopping sums of money by the John Mahama administration to keep their focus on the internal happenings of the NPP, as opposed to bad governance the people have been subjected to under the seven - year rule of the NDC government.

Creating a good resume (based on advanced sample) plays important role in searching a desired job with whopping sum of salary without any doubt.

These are few companies generating whopping sums of revenue for the Floridian state.

I pay a good whopping sum of Insurance Premiums to protect me AND my client... That ain't no $ 300 buck service.

Officials of the New Patriotic Party who were in government during the CAN 2008 tournament said Woyome did no work to be paid that whopping sum of money.

In all probability, the company will publish those figures if they are a whopping sum that will impress shareholders, but expect Twitter to be more cagey should users be slow to flock to the streams.

According to Sky Sports, the Citizens offered # 38m for the Italian international — a whopping sum for a player who will be 30 before the end of next season — but were knocked back by the Old Lady.

Likewise at one of the Federal Executive Council meetings which was chaired by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, a whopping sum of N13billion was approved for various projects across the country which covered power, education, science and technology, transportation and Federal Capital Territory.

In July, after announcing it would support the state senate GOP's quest to remain in the majority, 1199 funneled $ 100,000 to the state Republican Party's coffers, a whopping sum by Albany standards that made clear what side it was on.

Asamoah Gyan has disclosed spending a whopping sum of over GHC5 million on charitable works to give back to the society.

Nigeria spent a whopping sum of $ 1bn as subsidy on kerosene last year, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said.

The report resulted in nationwide controversy, with operatives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who were in government during the CAN 2008 tournament claiming Woyome did no work to be paid that whopping sum of money.

Less than a month ago, the focus was on Enugu State where the government was at the verge of procuring 48 Prado Jeep cars for Legislators and Commissioners at a whopping sum of N500million at N11.5 million per car.

«The APC members in Ondo have been preaching this strange gospel of rigging and we are now amazed by this latest antics to win the election with the award of a strange contract for a whopping N10 billion for Owo community where Akeredolu hails from with a view to releasing a whopping sum of N7 billion to him to make the rigging plan a reality.

The officer was arrested on Monday January 25, 2016 following intelligence report alleging that he extorted a whopping sum of $ 150,000 from some Military officers on the pretext that he would help give them a soft landing in the ongoing investigation into the arms deal scandal.

That project into which the Jakande - led administration had committed a whopping sum of N70 million (about $ 75 million at that time) was meant to put an end to the traffic nightmare in Lagos metropolis through the installation of a circuit of rail lines that would have stretched from Agege to Marina, Ikorodu in the north and Badagry in the east, ferrying nearly a million people a day, 31 - years ago.

Over the weekend, the Key and Peele alum's directorial debut, Get Out, officially crossed the $ 100 million mark, bringing its total domestic total to $ 111 million — a whopping sum compared to the film's extremely modest $ 4.5 million budget.

Last August, Google acquired Motorola Mobility for the whopping sum of $ 12.5 Billion.

A whopping sum of $ 32 was donated that day.