By taking advantage of this flaw they managed to win over $325,000, an astronomical sum in 1873.

Could these machines ever be worth the astronomical sums the manufacturers would want to charge?

The campaign raised the then astronomical sum of $21 Billion.

The works were constructed at a cost of £130,000, an astronomical sum at the time.

Yet even if such astronomical sums are spent, success is not assured.

For it, he received $10,000, an astronomical sum at the time.

That was an astronomical sum at the time, especially since the hardcover version of the book hadn't even come out yet.

In this day governments handle astronomical sums and a multitude of people.

It cost $300,000, an astronomical sum in 1947, when it was completed.

By comparison to his normal salary, it was an astronomical sum.