Example sentences of "four [noun sg] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 2 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 3 | Four pound a week more on the dole , cos we were having elected earnings and tax rebates on the dole and it and it made it up to eighteen pound . |
| 4 | Four pound a week . |
| 5 | And Mandy gets thirty four pound a week , one year 's benefit , and she 'll get the family allowance set now . |
| 6 | you see his expenditure was er , he , he , he , just to put it down to a very minor thing , you 're spending four pound a week |
| 7 | Rene said they 're twenty four pound a week . |