Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] [n mass] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will also enable the British shipowner to compete more favourably with his foreign rivals as it is evident that if the English shipowner pays £pound4.15s a month whereas the foreign shipowners for the same class of labour pays only £pound2.10s a month , he must be better able to compete and members must therefore recognise the importance of the International Movement " . |
| 2 | A dial-up call from London to Aberdeen costs about 30p a minute . |
| 3 | A decent portfolio of 15 films costs over $400m a year to produce . |
| 4 | A commuter from Crayford on Network SouthEast 's Sidcup line , Mr Constable pays about £700 a year for his ticket but rarely gets a seat . |
| 5 | Today MCP pays about £300 a kilo for impure gallium . |
| 6 | Another hospital cleaner in Sunderland takes home £35 a week . |
| 7 | Those who get housing benefit , but not income support , will find a single person 's rent rebate goes up £1.63 a week . |
| 8 | Clwyd charges only £5 a week and other counties do not charge at all for the day centres . |
| 9 | The society raises about £250,000 a year from membership contributions — about a third of its annual income . |
| 10 | Petrol costs only 14p a litre . |
| 11 | in the mammoth There are other big prizes during the year , and the normal weekly gamble costs about £2.70 a ticket . |
| 12 | Asian rhino horn is believed to be more potent and is worth around £30,000 a kilo , while the larger African horn fetches only £1,000 a kilo . |
| 13 | As a Life Guards officer , Major Hewitt earns around £32,000 a year — leaving a mystery over how he pays for his expensive life style . |
| 14 | The drastic boyish crop — first thought a disaster — is now a trend in itself , and Evangelista earns around $10,000 a day . |
| 15 | In fact , for a child under 11 , a mother receives precisely £l.68 a day to meet all needs : food , heating , light , clothes , shoes , entertainment , presents , fares . |
| 16 | Solar power costs about £2.26 a watt — a reduction of about £6 since 1980 . |
| 17 | CH3OH + CO — CH 3 C OH Methanol costs about £140 a tonne . |
| 18 | Mrs Elaine Wake said her 18-year-old brother takes home £205 a week working in a supermarket . |
| 19 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 20 | The average family pays nearly £2,000 a year in interest on debts and mortgages , but last year we ran our household budgets in the black for the first time since the mid-Eighties — and managed to tuck away £10.6 billion in savings . |