Example sentences of "[adj] thousand [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who are on six and a half thousand a year . |
| 2 | agencies have been inundated with job hunting dealers who often confide : " We 're earning thirty or forty thousand a year , but we 're working for a bucket shop . |
| 3 | if , if all I was talking about was twenty thousand pounds out of next year , I E six months , erm an investigator , a member of investigative staff , very roughly , costs us forty thousand a year in salary and office costs . |
| 4 | overall certainly if they 've got children , but if we get above thirty , forty thousand a year , it 'll take more the other people who 've gained so much |
| 5 | Government appointees , over forty thousand a lot of them Tory grandees or supporters of the Tory Party , now populate unelected quangos which control many of our public services . |
| 6 | Yeah the penultimate line is where you take off the existing policies from the total need and that 's what you 're left with the , the guy 's going to need two hundred thousand pounds to provide his wife with about eighteen , nineteen thousand a year . |
| 7 | Actually they do work well , I mean there is , there is one scenario where it does work well , if you 're elderly , and you 're in good health , then annuities are , are pretty good value because they look on their actuarial charts , if you 're an eighty eight year old , and er make an assessment and say well , for every ten thousand you give us , we 'll give thirteen thousand a year . |
| 8 | that 's only twelve thousand , thirteen thousand a year , that 's crap , that 's what Gerrard gets just on his own |
| 9 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 10 | You can give 'em three thousand a year to er in total to anybody you 've got all the exemptions like two hundred and fifty pound in any one gift erm and you 've got things like five thousand pounds on marriage of a child that you can give , and all these add up little cumulative bits here there and everywhere which helps you to dispose of an estate . |
| 11 | and we , and we were looking at er at ten percent , my maths are good , we 're looking at what three , three thousand a year ? |
| 12 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |
| 13 | I mean three thousand a year to rent one 's a lot of money really . |
| 14 | Well he earned three hundred and fifty thousand a year then . |
| 15 | It 's about three hundred and fifty thousand a year . |
| 16 | Now Andy , he gets a nice two hundred and fifty thousand a year , he does do a lot of work for it though |
| 17 | Well the average is nudging fifty thousand a month Lynda . |
| 18 | The employed client at twenty four thousand pounds a year income , other P H I cover of eight thousand a year so assuming the state person 's ability benefit is two , nine , one , seven , what 's the maximum Healthmaster benefit allowed ? |
| 19 | And they allowances , I think , up to another ten or eleven thousand a year for accommodation in London . |
| 20 | And in I was planting an average , there was five of us working and the students and we used to average about fourteen to sixteen thousand every year of young plants . |
| 21 | It it 's there for us to , to use as a , as a sore thumb exercise to ask questions but , but to actually do anything er , er as critical as saying , we 're gon na spend twelve thousand pounds next period and eleven thousand pound the period after and fourteen thousand the period after , er I do n't think that 's |
| 22 | Five hundred a week was twenty-five thousand a year . |
| 23 | ‘ Eighty thousand a year ? ’ asked the Viscount faintly . |
| 24 | That , that 's , that 's your ten thousand a year income , she can get by on that er this is interesting cos it 's all shares . |
| 25 | earning ten thousand a year . |
| 26 | There 's ten thousand a week coming in . |
| 27 | ‘ You try living your adult life on nine thousand a year , ’ she said to Him , and bent , with a sigh , to her typewriter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By the way , there was one thing that we did n't mention when we were talking about C P O's that is very pertinent is that already , I 've got it on authority , that one of the C P O's that we 've employed as a civilian has been offered a job with an alarm company at fifteen thousand a year |
| 30 | Now we might get some very very good qualified erm civilians apply for the post if it was fifteen thousand a year plus |