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astronomical sum

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meanings of astronomicaland sum


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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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Examples of astronomical sum


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The ultimate result will be the expenditure of the astronomicalsum of £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, the astronomicalsum of £2,224 million a year.
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It would cost an astronomicalsum, passengers would swamp the island and the cost of air freight is prohibitive.
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That is not an astronomicalsum of tax to pay for the goods and services that we require in the public sector.
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Their total abolition would involve an astronomicalsum, running into hundreds of millions of pounds.
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The amount for the lottery launch alone is said to he £45 million—an astronomicalsum and grotesquely over the top in my judgment.
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We are told that the astronomicalsum of 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 an astronomicalsum compared with the rent which they owe.
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Star wars will involve some $26 billion, which is an astronomicalsum of 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, this astronomicalsum has no meaning whatsoever for him.
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The works were constructed at a cost of 130,000, an astronomicalsum at 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 an astronomicalsum of 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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