small amount of money

Example Sentences

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Just a small amount of money traded by investors can move the market — $2.5 million versus a $12 million year-to-date average, he noted.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Banks have lent a relatively small amount of money to the private-credit funds that make the loans.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

It’s not a small amount of money for me as a journalist, but what I get in return is almost priceless.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2024

“To the federal government, it’s a pretty small amount of money, but it would make an unbelievable difference to theaters across the country,” Oskar Eustis, artistic director of New York’s Public Theater, told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

In the case of money, the subjects were asked if they would prefer to take a small amount of money, say, $5, versus waiting a period of time to get more money, say, $100.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel