• At the height of the boom, for every dollar banks issued in bonds, they might issue twenty dollars in swaps.

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  • When I was about to leave, my amazing grandmother gave me twenty dollars to do whatever I wanted with it.

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  • Twenty dollars a month for all the Internet access you could swallow!

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  • In one case that my partner and I worked many years ago at a regional bank, this premise was illustrated when an elderly depositor called the bank to report an apparent accounting error of about twenty dollars in interest in her IRS 1099 for her two Certificates of Deposit.

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  • Since my current loans involve me repaying seven hundred dollars a month as a minimum for the next fifteen years with only 12 months of forbearance, I have come to the conclusion that I must make at least a wage of twenty dollars an hour simply to cover my basic living expenses in order to simply survive.

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  • The projected budget for the movie was around a hundred and twenty million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Beyond the Matrix

  • Within a week, he had collected more than a hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Net Impact

  • Kumar agreed to be paid a quarterly sum of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

  • If they reached a million customers, the cost of their computer servers would exceed twenty thousand dollars per month.

    NEWYORKER: Get Rich U.

  • The cost of the experiment came to twenty thousand dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • If they accept it, then their company will join the JGI incubator, where the University will buy up to 50 percent of the business for ten to twenty thousand dollars.

    FORBES: The Existential MBA

  • Their demurrage is around twenty thousand dollars a day.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

  • Since the middle of 2007, Morgan Stanley has raised about twenty billion dollars in new capital and cut in half its leverage ratio the total value of its assets divided by its capital.

    NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?

  • After all, there is little chance that making education training more rigorous and more selective can even be done if young professionals can still make ten or twenty thousand dollars a year more in other professions.

    FORBES: Reforming Teacher Pay to Attract New Teachers

  • When, after a period of mounting tensions, a U.S. sentry fired on Filipino soldiers outside Manila in February, 1899, the second war erupted, just days before the Senate ratified a treaty with Spain securing American sovereignty over the islands in exchange for twenty million dollars.

    NEWYORKER: The Water Cure

  • Its investment-banking arm, which has grown rapidly over the past decade, still accounts for about three-tenths of its revenues (close to twenty billion dollars in the first nine months of this year) and more than two-thirds of its net profits (upward of six billion dollars in the same period).

    NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?

  • In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • A. raised the money by assessing twenty-five dollars a year from every one of its members.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • That's a big increase on the twenty five million dollars it spent on its last anti-smoking campaign.

    BBC: Mundo | Aprenda ingl��s | Campa?a anti-tabaco en Europa

  • You'd put in fifty cents a week, and in December, you got a fortune -- twenty-five dollars.

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  • Sometimes a client would give them a tip, between twenty and sixty dollars.

    NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry

  • Its official: Twenty three billion dollars in private pension funds have been seized by the leftist government of Cristina Kirchner in Argentina.

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  • By June of 2011, a bitcoin was worth more than twenty-nine dollars.

    NEWYORKER: The Crypto-Currency

  • First, for a credit-card payment of twenty-five dollars, the Web site will verify your name and address (which means that a member can be certain she is hosting the real Ripper, and not an impostor).

    NEWYORKER: You��re Welcome

  • Airfare, hotels, meals, insurance, and assorted charges came to the equivalent in yuan of about twenty-two hundred dollars.

    NEWYORKER: The Grand Tour

  • Koch Industries became a major producer of the chemical in 2005, after it bought Georgia-Pacific, the paper and wood-products company, for twenty-one billion dollars.

    NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

  • In 1989, Adelson bought the old Sands Hotel from Kerkorian for a hundred and twenty-eight million dollars, and established a new company, Las Vegas Sands.

    NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring

  • Like many active members of Scientology, they had kept money in an account (in their case, twenty-five hundred dollars) for future courses they intended to take.

    NEWYORKER: The Apostate

  • The World Bank employs thirteen thousand people in more than a hundred countries, and lends about twenty-five billion dollars a year to poor and middle-income nations.

    NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

  • I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.

    FORBES: What Does It Take To Start A Hotel?

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