Example sentences of "twenty pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty pounds of butter was enough for the lease of two and a half desiatiny of land for five years.l Five pudy of linseed cake were exchanged for the approaching harvest of a desiatin of wheat . |
| 2 | ‘ Twenty pounds , thirty , more ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Charlie usually brought home a bit over twenty pounds a week . |
| 4 | Paid cash for them , a couple of quid short of a hundred and twenty pounds . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So , you 've saved another hundred and twenty pounds in just two months . |
| 6 | You knew a river stone had been used to kill Hatton and today you , who get twenty pounds a week and never have a penny to bless yourself with , spent a hundred and twenty quid on luxury equipment . |
| 7 | He gave me twenty pounds . ’ |
| 8 | Twenty pounds of honey each hive , they gathered , or more ; sometimes twice that . |
| 9 | Anyway when they pulled it out of the net it was plainly a pike and somewhere between fifteen and twenty pounds I am sure . |
| 10 | He had his specially built twelve-foot big-wave gun , weighing about twenty pounds , ready and waiting . |
| 11 | Thereon was twenty pounds of steele , |
| 12 | As Mr. Micawber said ‘ If a man had twenty pounds a year for his income , and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence , he would be happy , but if he spent twenty pounds one , he would be miserable ’ . |
| 13 | As Mr. Micawber said ‘ If a man had twenty pounds a year for his income , and spent nineteen pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence , he would be happy , but if he spent twenty pounds one , he would be miserable ’ . |
| 14 | On such a cargo he could easily make himself twenty pounds a week , plus . |
| 15 | Yanto wants twenty pounds for that fish , in which case … . ’ |
| 16 | What if they only pay a pound an hour , are only part-time , I only get twenty pounds a week ? |
| 17 | The Earl of Radnor and Lady Windsor each gave ten guineas ; John Thornton the notorious City speculator and gambler , twenty pounds . |
| 18 | The wakeman was elected annually from ‘ his bretheren ’ and if he ‘ flytted from the towne except that God do visit it with pestilence ’ he had to forfeit twenty pounds . |
| 19 | ‘ Bert Weald 's on twenty pounds a year now , ’ he complained . |
| 20 | George thought grimly , ‘ That 's twenty pounds more than I get , or our Jonna . ’ |
| 21 | On screen , the locations certainly seem rough enough to give the impression that much of the filming must have been genuinely unpleasant , and the physical and emotional demands of the film , shot in high temperatures , led Dustin to lose twenty pounds by the time it was completed . |
| 22 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 23 | The termly payment from this scholarship was an evening of joy in the family , and when at sixteen the scholarship money was increased to twenty pounds per annum , it was enough to avert the danger of becoming a clerk on the Great Western Railway , a temptation which my struggling parents generously resisted . |
| 24 | In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable . |
| 25 | Earn your twenty pounds . |
| 26 | Twenty pounds ? |
| 27 | Twenty pounds was a small fortune to most cockneys . |
| 28 | The salary of the post to which the unlucky Mr Achterlonie aspired was a mere twenty pounds per annum , but Montrose did not disdain it , conscious that ‘ triffling as such a post is it may effectuallie oblidge some body who may be reddie to repay such a favor upon ane other occasion ’ . |
| 29 | I think I agree with the gentleman over there I think the youth of this particular town who on average spends somewhere in the region of fifteen and twenty pounds a week going to Highwire and going to pubs erm you need the attraction to the theatre . |
| 30 | Originally cost twenty pounds and we could get it for ten it 's er |