The Soviets have estimated their hard-currency debt at $70 billion, which is not considered an overly burdensome sum given the country's size and natural resources.

In fact, you might even consider a larger sum if you're confident your income will continue to rise over the next few years.

By no means was this considered a sizeable sum.

Twenty cents a bushel was considered a large sum by the standards of the day.

Some Democratic officials have suggested that the group will spend about $500,000 on the campaign, which is not considered a large sum for a citywide organizing effort.

I was considering a modest sum to start out with-say, seven or eight million rubles?

At the time it was considered a large sum of money.

The Government did not specify what it considered an adequate sum.

The American minimum wage would be considered a princely sum in Malaysia, for example.

If taken to its logical conclusion, then, nearly any actor can be considered merely a sum of other, smaller actors.