colossal sum

collocation in English

meaningsofcolossalandsum

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colossal
adjective
uk
/kəˈlɒs.əl/us
/kəˈlɑː.səl/
extremely ...
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sum
noun
uk
/sʌm/us
/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition ofcolossalandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Anyone who thinks that we can nationalise the land without spending acolossalsumof public money is really living in a fool's paradise.
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If there is to be any realism in the fulfilment of those pledges, acolossalsumof money will be involved.
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We are sticking to those, but we are putting in thecolossalsumof £1.2 billion extra next year.
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That is acolossalsumand in the main it affects the small man without a great deal of finance behind him.
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This can be said to be acolossalsum, but after all the value of money is the value one can receive for money.
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That is acolossalsum, and to have as the main criteria that figure is hazardous.
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The greater part of thiscolossalsumwas spent on "happy pills", but the "lift pills" are gradually catching up.
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At any rate it is acolossalsum, just under £1,500 million.
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It takes acolossalsumto repair a pier.
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There is also the problem of rural indebtedness, and it is estimated that the indebtedness now amounts to something like £800,000,000 which is acolossalsum.
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That sum may be the maximum amount to be paid, but it is acolossalsumfor them.
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To abandon a waterway to-day costs just about as much as digging one anew right from the start: it is acolossalsum.
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That is acolossalsumto keep our products in cold storage.
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Whether it be £38,000 or £28,000, or some in-between figure, it triggers off the expenditure of about £272,000, which seems to me to be acolossalsum.
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You will observe that the postage stamps upon it amount to thecolossalsumof 80,000 million marks, a sum which was once equal to £4,000,000,000.
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However, they are not sufficient to justify the continuing existence of a vast, elected regional authority spending acolossalsumof public money annually.
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If we now vote thiscolossalsumof money for 15 years without any question, we are seriously delegating our responsibility.
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Millions of people bet on this type of pool, and acolossalsumof money is involved.
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I wish to call attention to thecolossalsumwhich represents the cost of the money.
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These committees have cost thecolossalsumof about £20 a week, if my arithmetic is correct.
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