Collocations withsum
These are words often used in combination withsum.
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astronomical sum
The ultimate result will be the expenditure of the astronomical sum of £2,000 million, and nobody will quite know what it is all about.
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colossal sum
Anyone who thinks that we can nationalise the land without spending a colossal sum of public money is really living in a fool's paradise.
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considerable sum
These concessions were then rented or transferred to third parties for a considerable sum of money.
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cumulative sum
A cumulative sum technique was used in six studies (4;33;34;39; 43;47).
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enormous sum
It is an enormous sum.
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exorbitant sum
I think that fact makes it patent why such an exorbitant sum has been offered for this advowson.
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extraordinary sum
The result was an extraordinary sum which meant nineteenths of the amount of tax payable.
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fixed sum
But there should be a fixed sum.
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generous sum
It was hoped that the £1,000 figure fixed in 1969 would last for some time and that it was a generous sum.
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great sum
That is a great sum.
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handsome sum
I think the additional money voted to the medical profession is a handsome sum.
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hefty sum
That was a hefty sum at the time.
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huge sum
Is this huge sum needed?
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immense sum
I cannot accept that this immense sum is spent to fulfil brand image between different brands of cigarettes.
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infinite sum
The second, purely analytical step is to analyse the asymptotic behaviour of the infinite sum above.
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large sum
This sounds like a large sum, and indeed it is a large sum.
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maximum sum
But they aren't and the maximum sum is obtained only by a judicious choice of marking.
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modest sum
Individual patients pay a modest sum, and students and the aged pay even less.
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nominal sum
Another very widespread practice was to provide high-calorie, high-protein meals each weekday for a nominal sum.
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paltry sum
It is a paltry sum.
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princely sum
He paid me the princely sum—or whatever his equivalent would be of a princely sum—of £10 a week.
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reasonable sum
This preliminary study determined that scanning from books is a prohibitively wasteful use of time, but many text files are available online for a reasonable sum.
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significant sum
That is a significant sum.
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six-figure sum
The company has talked about a six-figure sum.
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sizeable sum
That is a sizeable sum.
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small sum
Each was paid a small sum for taking part.
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staggering sum
The state would have had to procure a staggering sum to pay official salaries, but how?
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substantial sum
Thus, they could obtain working capital, sometimes amounting to a substantial sum.
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sum of cash
He will have immediate certainty of a definite sum of cash.
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sum of money
The performance was a great success and the showman collected a tidy sum of money.
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tidy sum
That is a tidy sum.
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trivial sum
Today, a creditor can bring bankruptcy proceedings against his debtor even though he is only owed this comparatively trivial sum.
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undisclosed sum
This was settled out of court, for an undisclosed sum, without an admission of liability.
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unlimited sum
Will wilful poverty count in your unlimited sum?
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unprecedented sum
That is an unprecedented sum and it is 2½ times as much as we were spending in 1934.
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vast sum
That is a vast sum.
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weighted sum
Infection prevalence is a weighted sum of the number of infected multiplied by the corresponding marginal row probability.
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whole sum
This profile has also been constructed quantitatively to avoid the whole sum problem that arises inevitably when discussing such data.
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