Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 2 | This advertisement in the Morning Post of 23 October 1809 asked for money towards a fund for offering compositions to creditors which would effect the debtors ' release — 10s in the pound for every debt under £20 ; 7s 6d under £50 ; 5s above £50 . |
| 3 | short candles weighing six to the pound . |
| 4 | Five years ago it was announced in a communique issued from Agriculture House that tomatoes which are smallish , about 7 to the pound , round , red all over , and firm are the best and command the highest prices . |
| 5 | My youngest piped up : ‘ Look wellies three for a pound ! ’ |
| 6 | A familiar street hawker , usually shifting lighters at two for a pound was offering three for a pound . |
| 7 | Your pies are three for a pound your pasties are four for a pound . |
| 8 | J. says I must have eaten at least three of the pounds myself , but that 's just his usual exaggeration . |
| 9 | When Virgin had entered into the deal , the dollar rate stood at 1.45 to the pound . |
| 10 | Botswana has no foreign debt and a stable currency — the pula ( about three to the Pounds ) — and its tourism policy can be summed up as high cost , low volume . |
| 11 | To take an oversimplified example : if an investor buys marks at three to the pound , and the pound falls until it is valued at just two marks , every pound of the original stake will be worth £1.50 at the new rate . |
| 12 | I paid sixty for a pound . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're not nineteen and eleven in the pound , are you , my love ? ’ he asked , grinning at her affectionately . |
| 14 | The Trust paid a first dividend of 6s in the pound . |
| 15 | She 'd get about s five for a pound . |
| 16 | Trout tend to be in the order of half to three-quarters of a pound in weight and are great fun to catch . |
| 17 | She took out one of the pounds and gave it to her daughter . |
| 18 | The British infantry , firing a heavier bullet — 16 to the pound against the French 24 — than their enemies , and trained to do so rapidly , by platoons instead of in cumbrous ranks , now achieved a mastery of the battlefield that was the envy of continental commanders . |
| 19 | Twenty for a pound . |
| 20 | Listen , I du n no twenty to the pound or something |
| 21 | A familiar street hawker , usually shifting lighters at two for a pound was offering three for a pound . |
| 22 | Your pies are three for a pound your pasties are four for a pound . |
| 23 | Four for a pound the gent 's handkerchief coloured or white . |
| 24 | This was only a modest puff of inflation by subsequent standards : by 1974 the 1950 pound would have been worth only one-third of a pound . |
| 25 | Private firms are expected to stump up £400 million of the Pounds 1.8 billion cost of the 10-mile route . |
| 26 | Furthermore , income tax was relatively low ; it did not rise above 4s 6d to 5s in the pound during much of this time , and middle-class incomes of £250 p.a. to £1,000 p.a. enjoyed the lowest percentage burden of both direct and indirect taxation combined . |
| 27 | But it 's well worth it : sweet and juicy with a lovely flavour and large fruits , three or even two to a pound . |
| 28 | Right but then we go on to working out fractions , what 's two fifteenths of a pound . |
| 29 | The US currency fluctuated during much of 1990 , depreciating by 8.5 per cent against the deutschmark by March ( compared with its level a year earlier ) , and appreciating by 17.5 per cent vis-a-vis the yen during the same period , and 5.5 against the pound sterling . |
| 30 | The local currency is the dirham , currently 14.65 to the pound . |