Example sentences of "[adj] pounds [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm have given us forty pounds worth of holiday vouchers . |
| 2 | And probably forty pounds worth of of petrol there and back . |
| 3 | Thus , provided the meals industry is in competitive equilibrium , the marginal cost curve for the film industry is simply the extra pounds worth of utility sacrificed by using scarce resources to make another film instead of extra meals . |
| 4 | ‘ The Adventists have an agreement with the Town Hall to give each woman 100 pounds weight of donated US foods monthly , in exchange for three days ' municipal work a week . ’ |
| 5 | Okay , what we 'll do then is get you to sign this form here , we call it a green form fairly obviously from its colour and that means that I can do up to erm about eighty six pounds worth of er a bit more depending on on what we have to do , and you do n't have to pay us anything towards that . |
| 6 | two or three pounds worth of messages . |
| 7 | Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive . |
| 8 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 9 | Er yes I think they did but er we reckoned we lost about eight hundred and fifty pounds worth of gear . |
| 10 | spend fifty pounds worth of bread , do you ? |
| 11 | Fifty pounds worth of petrol gives you one pound off . |
| 12 | fifty pounds worth of carpet . |
| 13 | Well that 's quite some money , fifty pounds worth of |
| 14 | And the first prize is two hundred and fifty pounds worth of carpet . |
| 15 | Fifty pounds worth of tuition . |
| 16 | See I 'm I 'm only allowed to take fifty pounds worth of rand into the country so I 've got ta do it all in travellers cheques . |
| 17 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 18 | I asked her about the letter and she said she could n't remember anything about it but she filled in something when they came back from Belfast and she said open it , so I opened it and it 's one of these things er if you book to go to Dublin before May the whatever , the end of May , then if you went again in the Autumn , you you get er fifty pounds worth of vouchers or something , you go half price . |
| 19 | There 's four hundred and fifty pounds worth of corm blurgh . |
| 20 | But , what we would say to you I think this morning , Chair , is that in your officers ' view erm , yes , we think it is sensible to go forward and manage on the basis of five hundred thousand pounds addition towards that shortfall , we become increasingly nervous if that five hundred thousand pounds is reduced , and because of the uncertainty , again later in the papers you will see still have some contingencies that you could use from savings in previous years , and we will be strongly recommending to you that you retain some of those contingencies because of the uncertainty that still attaches to demands in the community care grants . |
| 21 | Our objective , the objective of giving a fifty thousand pounds refund on Green Bottom , was twofold . |
| 22 | They have brought the project to the stage where it is almost completed and only remains for the ba the building basically to be fitted out internally , and they have largely raised the funds to do that , but they are some ten thousand pounds short , and they came to erm , the Department with a request that we erm , assist them with this ten thousand pounds shortfall in the funding . |
| 23 | Chelsea have offered a hundred and twenty thousand pounds compensation for loosing Glenn the manager . |
| 24 | Two brothers who worked with asbestos have been awarded a hundred and forty thousand pounds compensation for lung damage . |
| 25 | A woman who was left with severe brain damage in a road accident has been awarded three hundred thousand pounds compensation from her husband 's former employer . |
| 26 | And when you for example , see ads in the Times , you know , these pathetic people who say , I 've lost my filofax , five thousand pounds reward to anybody who gives it back to me , because my life is in ruins . |
| 27 | In a very matter-of-fact voice he apologised for the shut down , due to engine failure , adding laconically that he had left ten thousand pounds worth of tyres on the runway . |
| 28 | ‘ See that ceiling , there 's thirty thousand pounds worth of dry rot waiting to be done . ’ |
| 29 | Now we 've actually found seventy thousand pounds worth of savings we have n't made anybody redundant and we 've actually quite clearly taken in that seventy thousand pounds within our overall budget past decisions has had to be taken and they 've been taken as I said earlier hopefully when the financial climate gets better we perhaps we 'll be able to other things all or were revert back to things that we we do wish to do because the the financial restraints on us . |
| 30 | there 's a hundred thousand pounds worth of claims th then there are more fees that we would be entitled to . |