Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full fees were a hundred pounds a year and erm the Education Department ha had assessed my father 's contribution towards the fees at six shillings a week which was about fifteen pounds a year . |
| 2 | or whatever and they were a hundred pounds a week or |
| 3 | It was a thousand pounds . |
| 4 | It 's continental and is not is not U K and that was a hundred pounds , more or less for his fee and and buying a and buying at a discount through somebody who I knew buying this new shower and the tappy things , you know |
| 5 | That was a few pounds . |