The exit would raise enough money to repay the loans and still reap a handsome profit for the buyout firms.

Having turned a handsome profit of 7.50 in just 12 weeks, he decided to give it another go the following winter.

He had invested $10m in his facilities and was making a handsome profit.

At the end of its first year the business reported a handsome profit of slightly more than 1,000.

But, if it delivers, investors could make a handsome profit while preserving a beautiful part of the world.

At the time, the customers who signed up for the account must have been excited at the handsome return on their cash.

That's a much more handsome return than you can get from a high street savings account.

For almost any other professional one victory from his past four strokeplay events would be a handsome return.

The museum will be funded by private sponsorship and it seems certain that the financiers will make a handsome return on their investment.

They were taped shut and there was the possibility that a half-crown (2s 6d or 12½p) might be inside the box you selected - a handsome return.

The club will certainly reap another handsome reward should they decide to cash in on the pair of them somewhere down the line.

This industry brought a handsome reward.

Yet his ambition reaped handsome reward.

They gained a handsome reward yesterday.

And it might yet still be a handsome reward.

He earned a handsome salary, but did not change his lifestyle.

Does the enterprise really need to shell out a handsome salary for a specialist to install patches?

He was paid a handsome salary, but did not increase his normal expenditures and gave the excess to good causes.

According to his promotional brochure, the railroad hauled him around in a private car and paid him a handsome salary.

Despite being offered a handsome salary for the time, she turned it down, believing that she could have a greater impact branching off on her own.

The moment when you fall into the arms of a handsome stranger.

The comedian lunges, gallops and shares tales of social faux pas that include curtseying to a handsome stranger and passing wind.

If only there was a dark, handsome stranger to sweep her off her feet...

The handsome stranger convinced her he was in love with her — before fleecing the 64-year-old of 160,000 in an investment scam.

But hey, at least there's a handsome stranger available for him to open his heart to.

Building a school was the easy part: a brick schoolhouse was completed in 1890 for the handsome sum of $3,000.

In addition to the handsome sum of 10 per day as commander-in-chief, he received a variety of other stipends, including his colonel's salary, given for leading his regiment.

Toys can be purchased at a handsome sum that knocks a player back six squares, makes an opponent's wheel spin slower or faster, creates lightning, among other things.

They took hold of every single brother and promised them a handsome sum (of money) and a passable reward, but they still received a negative answer.

I built up businesses and sold them for very handsome sums.

Ruggedly handsome and dressed in black, his rolled-up shirt sleeves reveal large tattoos.

West's ruggedly handsome, expressive face, just slightly out of scale with the world around him - a handy facet for an actor - lights up.

Tall, dark and ruggedly handsome strangers will soon be available at the other end of a text message.

In her pictures, it looks ruggedly handsome, in a brutal sort of way.

He appeared as a ruggedly handsome fair-haired man, often slightly naive.

Though blind in one eye, he was strikingly handsome in person, his demeanour was dignified and his manners full of grace and courtesy.

He was a strikingly handsome man, tall and lean, with thick gray hair.

A strikingly handsome man, he had a thick head of hair and his face, a contemporary has said, was as fine as the moon.

Strikingly handsome and a brilliant cricketer, he rapidly became one of the most popular fellows in the school.

Of a strikingly handsome person and military carriage, he bore the weight of years with unbent form and with the proud, firm step of a born soldier.