Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Chairman just to in conclusion , we continue , we are proposing to continue this daily expansion of nursery places , our half a million pounds this year would be divided up roughly three hundred and fifty one thousand pounds on revenue and a hundred and fifty thousand pounds on capital and would gain us over four hundred new places , that 's in line with the type of expansion that we achieved |
| 2 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 3 | Listen , I nave a thousand pounds in my pocket . |
| 4 | Er , Ottery St Mary Scout roof repairs , amount request a thousand pounds . |
| 5 | Example a thousand pound normally two and forty eight pounds , now only forty eight pounds |
| 6 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 7 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 8 | You have to give the doorman a ten pound note or something to get a nice place you know |
| 9 | Lot number seventy eight Lot seventy eight a patinated bronze teapot there 's the bronze teapot a hundred pounds at one hundred and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at one hundred and twenty pounds , one thirty , forty , fifty , sixty , seventy , eighty ninety , two hundred two twenty bid I 'm offered two hundred and twenty to my right and selling for two twenty , two forty two sixty , two eighty three hundred and twenty three fifty three eighty four hundred and twenty four fifty , eighty five hundred and fifty six hundred six hundred pounds offered anybody else at six hundred pounds still to my right at six hundred pounds . |
| 10 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 11 | In setting each one of them , to get it all ready cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 12 | To give you an example : in our house a two pound bag of sugar lasts six weeks . |