Example sentences of "[art] [adj] pounds [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
3 | Oh yeah , the , the twenty pounds premium that they 're proposing to be paid to the and area . |
4 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
5 | On one occasion he nearly saw the man killed : ‘ The rope , sixty-five yards long , on his being drawn up , having a knot in the middle , was arrested by a clint ( crack ) in the rock , to which , with an eaglet sixteen and a half pounds weight , tied to his back , he had no other resource than that of ascending by his hands , the space something overhanging from the nest to the crack … |
6 | A thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation in the U K. |
7 | competition I entered was win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles . |
8 | I 've won a midi hi-fi system and a thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation . |
9 | Well what I did , there were a competition , win a thousand pounds worth of Air Miles and I , I entered every single one of them because of Irene . |
10 | They handled something something like a thousand pounds worth of cars that |
11 | Let's say we earned a thousand pounds commission on one case , and I had to make one hundred calls to earn , to get that one sale . |
12 | and they , the first prize is a thousand pounds cash , second prize family holiday cottage in the Isle of Mule and third prize holiday cottage in Norfolk and fourth prize holiday apartment in Cumbria and the , I mean the idea is you take a book and try , if you have a place of work or , or friends that will buy raffle tickets er just try and sell them and er , how much are they ? er |
13 | They also took a thousand pounds cash . |
14 | THE scandal of more than one-third of a billion pounds worth of intervention food being held in cold storage in the Republic while millions of people are dying in Africa has angered TDs . |
15 | I says to Steve , I may as well buy a ten pounds worth of anything else |
16 | He said she 's got a ten pounds bonus because I paid for the . |
17 | Almost half a million pounds damage was caused by the fire at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic School at Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire just over a week ago . |
18 | The stumbling block has been Stoke City 's half a million pounds compensation demand which the Parkhead club have refused to meet . |
19 | He says it 's meant the loss of half a million pounds income for Oxfam and they 're continuing to lose £10,000 a week . |
20 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
21 | Philips Car Systems in Bicester supplies stereo equipment to the truck company and could loose half a million pounds worth of trade if it collapses . |
22 | Over a million pounds worth of water filtration kit , vital in the North African Desert , but being delivered ast a critical time in relations with the Libyan Government … but that 's not going to stop them . |
23 | He 's alleged to have smuggled three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain , concealed in a lorry load of pot plants . |
24 | A florist has been convicted of smuggling three quarters of a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain . |
25 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
26 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
27 | The cause for the closure … arsonists who early last Sunday week set fire to a pile of books in the main school building causing half a million pounds worth of damage . |
28 | It 's estimated that half a million pounds worth have been smuggled out of the country already this year . |
29 | On the agenda , how best to make half a million pounds worth of cuts to Gloucestershires ' library service . |
30 | Told him , selling a million pounds worth of flour e er flour a year and he had his twenty first coming up and apparently , he starts spilling the beans |