Example sentences of "than [art] [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 2 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
| 3 | The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession . |
| 4 | The Hampshire fourth division side , which is more than a million pounds in debt , have been given notice to quit their own ground . |
| 5 | ( WES ) The items , including portraits , busts , and waxes , could fetch more than a million pounds . |
| 6 | Anyone who 's seen Glenn Hoddle play will know he 's worth more than a million pounds . |
| 7 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 8 | Over the next year it has to save more than a million pounds to avoid being chargecapped : |
| 9 | The Howards had hoped for more than a million pounds in compensation … the cost of caring for Michelle , and paying for the court case , has stretched their finances to the limit . |
| 10 | A woman who owns a castle worth more than a million pounds is having her mortgage paid by the state — but she says she 's planning to return all the money . |
| 11 | A couple have won more than a million pounds on the pools — and are putting the jackpot down to the lucky pixie mascot they used to pick the numbers . |
| 12 | It 's cost more than a million pounds , but staff and children say it 's worth every penny . |
| 13 | They 'll be replaced by new homes costing more than a million pounds . |
| 14 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 15 | A group of nuns are facing eviction from their convent after running up debts of more than a million pounds . |
| 16 | In July the Commons public accounts committee attacked the W D A for its management practices and for making unauthorized redundancy payments worth more than a million pounds . |
| 17 | The twinning budget on Grenoble City Council is more than a million pounds . |
| 18 | There 's less than a thousand pounds left . ’ |
| 19 | SLIMMERS have piled on more than a thousand pounds in little over a month … and they are delighted . |
| 20 | ‘ Not for less than a thousand pounds ! ’ cried Lady Durbeyfield . |
| 21 | But Richard Oastler was still in his debtor 's prison , more than a thousand pounds short of the repayment of his debt , despite the money which Luke and thousands like him kept on collecting , week after week , from their wages . |
| 22 | A stuffed lion which is expected to sell for more than a thousand pounds is just one of the unusual exhibits at a auction of taxidermy . |
| 23 | Many defendants have been fined of more than a thousand pounds , simnplky because they earned reasonable salries . |
| 24 | They 've raised more than a thousand pounds to fly the five year old to Britain for surgery . |
| 25 | They were ordered to open the safe and hand over cash and cheques amounting to more than a thousand pounds . |
| 26 | But the bath is expected to fetch more than a thousand pounds . |
| 27 | The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag . |
| 28 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |
| 29 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 30 | But in each instance the value of their haul amounted to less than a hundred pounds . |