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She says she is fortunate enough to be able to afford the sum but that the high prices involved are another reason why the law should be changed – so that assisted dying is possible for every terminally-ill person who chooses it, not just those who can afford it.

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But this is a production in which the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Though it was a warm day, fewer than 200 children showed up — the sum of about three field trips.

Without it, a soldier can’t get full tuition and fees at a public university as well as a housing and books allowance — a sum that can easily reach $100,000.

While the £336,612,000 raised from those sales may sound a reasonable sum, it works out on average at about £77,000 per house.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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