Its budget was officially said to be about $5.5 million, an astonishing sum for a city where production costs are commonly half that or less.

Yet in those department stores that succeed, depachika pull in astonishing sums.

But so far, she noted, astonishing sums were being given, from wealth controlled not just by a few families but in many hands.

Parlayed it into an astonishing sum, buying shares in mining operations.

Blount managed to raise over $300,000 for the expedition, an astonishing sum of money for the time.

So by acquiring the team, Cablevision would cut out rights fees, even if it means buying the franchise for an astonishing sum.

All the movies did appreciably well; the latter two, though, grossed astonishing sums.

He told the men the astonishing sum and they reluctantly agreed.

Up until this point it had cost the astonishing sum of $40 million to develop and install (about $350 million in 2000 dollars).

The astonishing sums expended were widely viewed as money wasted.