astronomical sum
collocation in Englishmeaningsofastronomicalandsum
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astronomical
adjective
uk/ˌæs.trəˈnɒm.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌæs.trəˈnɑː.mɪ.kəl/
connected ...
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sum
noun
uk/sʌm/us/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition ofastronomicalandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The ultimate result will be the expenditure of theastronomicalsumof £2,000 million, and nobody will quite know what it is all about.
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Those balances have been more or less restored, but local authorities are borrowing, and have borrowed, theastronomicalsumof £2,224 million a year.
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It would cost anastronomicalsum, passengers would swamp the island and the cost of air freight is prohibitive.
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That is not anastronomicalsumof tax to pay for the goods and services that we require in the public sector.
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Their total abolition would involve anastronomicalsum, running into hundreds of millions of pounds.
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The amount for the lottery launch alone is said to he £45 million—anastronomicalsumand grotesquely over the top in my judgment.
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We are told that theastronomicalsumof at least £180 million is to be cut off the agreed expenditure of local authorities next year.
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If local authorities evict such people and place them in the care of their social services departments, it will cost anastronomicalsumcompared with the rent which they owe.
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Star wars will involve some $26 billion, which is anastronomicalsumof money, and we will be involved as a partner.
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When the average consumer reads that government has appropriated $10 billion for this or that program, thisastronomicalsumhas no meaning whatsoever for him.
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The works were constructed at a cost of 130,000, anastronomicalsumat the time.
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Another variation that may sometimes reference this title includes a false claim that an individual's email address was drawn as a winner of anastronomicalsumof money.
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These are astronomical sums, and the expenditure will have increased since the war started.
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I have seen mention of astronomical sums as being necessary for putting our agriculture on its feet, especially on this marginal land.
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Every country is spending astronomical sums upon the arms race.
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I do not suppose, however, that he will want me to congratulate him on the astronomical sums of which he had to speak.
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I find it difficult to deal in astronomical sums of money.
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These are big sums of money, but not the astronomical sums they once were.
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I agree, but we are in a dilemma when to do that ideally on paper involves astronomical sums of money.
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