reasonable sum
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreasonableandsum
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reasonable
adjective
uk/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/us/ˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/
based on or using good judgment and therefore fair ...
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sum
noun
uk/sʌm/us/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition ofreasonableandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This preliminary study determined that scanning from books is a prohibitively wasteful use of time, but many text files are available online for areasonablesum.
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Does he think that £625,000 is areasonablesumto spend on a little stationery, a few postage stamps, a little office furniture, and so on?
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Can they be refurbished for areasonablesum?
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That seems areasonablesum, not too big and not too small.
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When we compare that with the death exemption of £5,000, we feel that that is a generous butreasonablesum.
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Areasonablesummight be £20,000 or £25,000 in any one year.
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The £4 we then provided for a single person seemed areasonablesumin those days of cheap food.
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It is only after the trees are 40 years old that he can possibly hope to start making areasonablesumof money on them.
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The films are hired from renters for a veryreasonablesum.
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I do not know what the words "income up to areasonablesum" mean if they do not mean discretion.
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My answer is that he ought to be charged areasonablesumfor hire.
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That now leaves only one month during which the recruit can buy himself out for areasonablesum.
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Therefore, the scope for the industry to recover areasonablesumby a cut in employers national insurance simply does not exist.
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It does not have to be areasonablesum.
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I hope that we raise areasonablesumof money.
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More relevant, perhaps, is that it is areasonablesumwhen compared with the cost of removing the anomaly affecting sporting rights.
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The figure of £100 million was areasonablesumby way of compensation because of the freezing of the price of coal for a two-year period.
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The railway company ask for areasonablesumof money.
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If it is areasonablesum, however, we ought to respect people's anonymity.
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If one takes some yardstick such as the annual turnover of the industry, this figure is areasonablesum.
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