Example sentences of "[adj] pounds [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rent was thirty-six pounds a year , which was very hard on him . |
| 2 | Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims . |
| 3 | So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time . |
| 4 | There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month . |
| 5 | A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 8 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 9 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 10 | I pay forty pounds a year , about a twelfth of a normal club subscription . ’ |
| 11 | Oh well we 're fairly heavily committed at the moment but erm well I suppose we could go up to a budget of about forty pounds a month . |
| 12 | Forty pounds a month . |
| 13 | I could get two part-time jobs — forty pounds a week — you ca n't live on forty pounds a week … |
| 14 | I could get two part-time jobs — forty pounds a week — you ca n't live on forty pounds a week … |
| 15 | ten pounds like this gentleman for a child which costs thirty or forty pounds a week to bring up . |
| 16 | Well he showed me packets thirty five and forty pounds a week which then those days was utterly fantastic money . |
| 17 | because he does n't want the ensuite , he ca n't afford it , he ca n't pay forty pounds a week |
| 18 | It 's going at one hundred and forty pounds the lot , at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 19 | Are you all finished now , it 's going in at forty pounds the lot . |
| 20 | Are you all finished now , it 's going in at two hundred and forty pounds the lot at two hundred and forty pound . |
| 21 | Together their income is £44,000 , more than the Lippitt family and far more than the Belkin family , yet they will only pay a few extra pounds a week in combined tax under Labour . |
| 22 | Repayment mortgages payable over 25 years can be extended to 30 or 35 years , earning you a few extra pounds a month because you will be paying less for longer . |
| 23 | It 'll mean an average bill will be cut by thirteen pounds a year . |
| 24 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 25 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 26 | Well if it 's six pounds for six people that 's thirty six pounds a night is n't it ? |
| 27 | On that basis Mr took the cost of one professional carer as twenty three thousand eight hundred and six pounds a year , he multiplied by three point five and arrived at a figure of eighty three thousand three hundred and twenty one pounds . |
| 28 | Plus you would get five thousand six hundred and six pounds a year pension . |
| 29 | The garage charges six pounds a day for storage … and after nearly two months the total bill is four hundred and eighty nine pounds . |
| 30 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |