Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] pounds a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 2 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 3 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 4 | Six of the pupils have been allowed to stay on at the seven and a half thousand pounds a year school . |
| 5 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 6 | And very , yeah , I mean th that 's , that 's all that this exploration of needs is , is just saying you retired yesterday and you were earning twelve thousand a year , you 're now gon na be earning two and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 7 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's budget — around one and a half million pounds a year . |
| 9 | I think the bottom line cost for U K P L C er the Health and Safety Exe Executive estimates this to be seven and a half billion pounds a year . |
| 10 | It cost a mere eight pounds a week to rent . |
| 11 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |
| 12 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 13 | A hundred thousand pounds a year . |
| 14 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |