Example sentences of "of [adv] than [noun] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time , there were 1.4 million pensioners receiving supplementary benefits of less than £5 a week . |
| 2 | It is worth thinking about , because if you are on a wage of less than £60 a week , the difference in cost between paying 3.85 per cent and 5 per cent of your earnings is not very great . |
| 3 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 4 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 5 | The major reason why Britain now has 40 per cent of all part-time jobs in the EEC is the structure of national insurance contributions which exempt both employers and employees from paying any contributions on earnings of less than £43 a week . |
| 6 | For example , a study of earnings in Leicester suggests that , in 1990 , 86 per cent of Asian women in employment had gross earnings of less than £150 a week . |
| 7 | Clearly , combined earnings of more than £2 a week must have quite commonly been brought into the households of mule spinners , while £2.50 would hardly have been exceptional . |
| 8 | Changes announced yesterday mean that anybody with a disposable income of more than £61 a week will have to contribute a maximum of one third of his or her income above the limit rather than the present quarter . |