Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] [n mass] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victoria 's savings are over £5,000 a year . |
| 2 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 3 | Although the tail of this aircraft is still camouflaged. the rest of it has already been painted blue overall . |
| 4 | Presumably the latter figure is under £8,500 a year . |
| 5 | Choosing a penn'orth of sweets could be a long job : a gob-stopper , a liquorice wheel , liquorice rope , a chew , each could be bought for a farthing , and many boiled sweets and toffees were only tuppence a quarter . |
| 6 | Unemployment benefit is now £25 a week . |
| 7 | Wine is about £2.00 a bottle . |
| 8 | A room is about £75 a night , up to £260 for a suite of four rooms . |
| 9 | Internat-ional rates are approximately US$20 a kilo . |
| 10 | Most estimates reckon that the black economy is roughly 40% the size of the official one . |
| 11 | Only about 50 per cent of the dietary cholesterol is absorbed , so the actual daily intake is about 400mg a day . |
| 12 | The official cost of this rubbish is nearly £200,000 a year . |
| 13 | Calls on mobile phones are now 25p a minute ( peak rate ) on Primetime with half-minute billing , and 20p a minute ( off peak ) with half-minute billing . |
| 14 | ‘ The grocery bill is around £50 a week and that includes everything . |
| 15 | The price of success is around £25,000 a year . |
| 16 | Shorn of the brewing side , Boddies ' assets are about 210p a share . |
| 17 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 18 | The average Albanian wage is about £10 a month , worth 20 times that if it can be exchanged for blackmarket US dollars . |
| 19 | Instead of sending donations to different charities direct , providing the minimum annual sum is over £120 a year ( or over £10 a month ) , donors can ‘ gift ’ the money to CAF who will maintain a ‘ charity cheque account ’ for them and will distribute the money to whichever charities they nominate . |
| 20 | Although her maximum grant is only £2,845 a year , the banks still see her as a good catch . |
| 21 | This means your taxable income is just £191 a year . |
| 22 | Its income is now £1,500,000 a year and rising fast . |
| 23 | Green party annual income is about £250,000 a year , and membership is currently rising . |
| 24 | A country where the average income is only $350 a year , and where the poor jostle for space as well as food , will never find it easy to bind up its factional wounds . |
| 25 | The maximum tax saving for a basic-rate taxpayer is therefore £1,000 a year ( £4,000 * 25% ) . |
| 26 | Their salaries in America were usually $45 a week , the equivalent of £10 . |
| 27 | According to insurance giant Norwich Union the average premium for private health cover is around £240 a year , but a fairer price would be £192 . |
| 28 | Unlike contractors who are paid danger money , MoD civil servants are paid a flat wage ; their average take-home pay is just £120 a week . |
| 29 | But there are compensations : the going rate for a decent country house location is about £1,000 a day , and can be considerably more . |
| 30 | Now it 's finally open , nearly two years after De Niro first approached Nieporent with the idea , the Tribeca Bar and Grill will need to turn over more than £1.2 million a year just to break even , something that may prove difficult , given that the average bill for the restaurant 's simple fish and pasta dishes is around $40 a head . |