A week and a half ago, Swiss bankers announced the creation of the fund with an initial sum of $70 million.

There are forty-three coins inside this box, obviously the remainder of a much larger initial sum.

Traditionally, bidders pay their investment bankers an initial sum plus another larger amount if the outcome is successful.

The new budget asks for an initial sum of $17 million to begin retiring the weapons system.

An initial sum of £2m will be put into the more urgent cases, he said, with more to follow.

This supplies the player with an initial sum of cash to buy ammunition.

Interest rates are based on the initial sum, not the sum at the end of the period.

Enernorth paid an initial sum to Oakwell and agreed to pay the remainder within 30 days of "financial closure".

The initial sum deposited was so we know one point on the curve :

Most companies will provide one-off initial sums expecting to realise the investment within three to seven years.