Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 2 | Er this er James can I ask you erm if we could establish what the stage er the next stage remain unspent probably er so that we the er paper indicates er er schedule of balance of a thousand pounds . |
| 3 | Offenders could face a fine of a thousand pounds . |
| 4 | In Northampton a blind widow of eighty-two has been robbed of a thousand pounds at her home . |
| 5 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 6 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 7 | This year , Mary , vice-President , and I , together with Eddie and Derek , representing the Southern region , went to St Peter 's Centre , which is a day centre for people suffering from Alzheimer 's disease , towards the north of Portsmouth , to contribute our cheque of a thousand pounds , which is going towards the extension of the centre . |
| 8 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 9 | A bursary of a hundred pounds , yes . |
| 10 | Lot number thirty two Lot thirty two , the lacquer brushes there we are , there 's the lacquer brushes , I 've got two offers of a hundred pounds for them one hundred pounds in two places , at one hundred and ten , one twenty , thirty , forty going on ? |
| 11 | But it 'll cost something in the region of a hundred pounds to replace a set of tyres . |
| 12 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 13 | Through their sponsorship of cricket , Cornhill , until recently a little-known City insurance company , turned themselves into a household name at the cost of a million pounds over five years . |
| 14 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 15 | It was a perfect site because the building , for which a quarter of a million pounds ( £8,250,000 ) had been set aside from the Twentieth Century Fund , was meant to be ‘ a challenge to the Church of England ’ . |
| 16 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 17 | On riverside sites , sometimes on land previously used for industry , new or refurbished units have been put on the market at prices in excess of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm afraid a quarter of a million pounds sterling paid out on your mother 's life makes it my business . ’ |
| 19 | This level of debt , Ms Harris says , is ‘ not unrealistic ’ for a firm with a fee income of a couple of a million pounds . |
| 20 | When considering these findings it should be borne in mind that many companies round up the fees paid to the nearest million pounds ( or one place of decimals of a million pounds ) and that foreign currency movements can cause distortions . |
| 21 | It gave Hugh Lorimer some satisfaction to inform Philip that his son had inherited the estate in Meath and a personal fortune of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 22 | A quarter of a million pounds is worth waiting for . ’ |
| 23 | The team he was a part of in 1966 shared £28,000 out of a total competition profit of a million pounds . |
| 24 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 25 | Gatherum Castle is of immense size and quite new , having been built by the Duke for a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 26 | Whilst I was working for the council , someone came to ask and we had some new o new officer appointed and he was very worried about getting ca er p permission from the council to launch a sewer scheme that was going to cost a quarter of a million pounds , a very large amount in those days . |
| 27 | Mr Stannard was a partner in one of the leading county estate agencies ; his name graced the pages of the local paper each week , spread like a banner above photographs of houses all priced , it seemed to Edward , at a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 28 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 29 | A quarter of a million pounds has been the motive for far worse crimes than the one you contemplated . |
| 30 | Charles could have chosen any excuse for the phone call and it was pure chance that he had lighted on the meaningless ‘ numberplate racket ’ I ‘ So that 's what made you drive down in the Datsun , and move the plan forward , and lose a quarter of a million pounds ? ’ |