Example sentences of "pounds ' [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just slipping and dropping a wing while loading it into the trailer will cause hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage , and although most gliders are insured , every accident eventually results in higher premiums and higher costs for gliding enthusiasts . |
| 2 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 3 | No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general . |
| 4 | The Masters had been out to dinner and were well mellowed , wide awake and disposed to chat , but sitting in their quarry-tiled kitchen-diner , with thousands of pounds ' worth of elegant cabinet work and expensive machinery around him , McLeish managed to extract a coherent story . |
| 5 | In its way , it was as funny and arresting as anything from television , but it lacks the scale and presence of a few hundred thousand pounds ' worth of television commercial . |
| 6 | Often the prizes can run to several hundred pounds ' worth of equipment for the school plus valuable cash prizes for children . |
| 7 | You are now in an unusually powerful position : you have a strong , professional team behind you , and a good few thousand pounds ' worth of buying power in your pocket . |
| 8 | With some of the debt paid off each month , and more credit extended , in the year as a whole credit cards might finance several billion pounds ' worth of shopping . |
| 9 | Several hundred pounds ' worth of tools have been stolen by burglars who broke into a garden shed in King George 's Avenue , Dovercourt.The haul included two drills , a sander , a paint stripper , a circular saw , a hedge trimmer and a strimmer , all of the Black & Decker make . |
| 10 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 11 | I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club . |
| 12 | Sir Alexander , Professor of Medicine at the King 's College , revealed that in peacetime Aberdeen exported a hundred thousand pounds ' worth of stockings a year , and in wartime a hundred and seventy thousand . |
| 13 | Croggon bought the factory and made many thousands of pounds ' worth of Coade stone for Buckingham Palace , but in the late 1830s trade declined , and the firm came to an end in about 1840 . |
| 14 | I 've actually put in for twenty thousand pounds ' worth of grants at this point , however , let's see whether I 'm fortunate to achieve that . |
| 15 | Being the skipper meant she was in sole command of a million pounds ' worth of yacht . |
| 16 | Will my hon. Friend pay particular attention to the application of a company in my constituency which requires a small amount of insurance cover that could lead to tens of millions of pounds ' worth of business ? |
| 17 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 18 | That 's right , yes and t to , to line the walls , and paint the exterior , they 've got virtually , well they got nine hundred and fifteen pounds ' worth of work they need to do to the hut . |
| 19 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 20 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 21 | Unfortunately it would appear , or perhaps fortunately , depending on , on one 's views , erm , the policy has always been quite clear , that we should treat them in exactly the same way as we treat the independent sector , and that there would be an arm 's length independent inspection , that has now been made explicitly clear that that is the requirement , and therefore you would have to withdraw that and say that if there is a requirement to find a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of savings , we will have to go and identify another area rather than that . |
| 22 | But the provisional guid the guideline which was set by Policy and Resources in the first instance , was just for this Committee to identify seventy thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 23 | But when it comes to the Trading Standards Board , what we 're saying is , if P and R and Policy Panel this Committee finds seventy thousand pounds ' worth of savings , then clearly item two represents a way of doing it . |
| 24 | The bad news is that there were two hundred and thirteen thousand pounds ' worth of non- recurring income items to reach that and this means that the Association 's routine activities ran at a deficit of twenty thousand pounds or thereabouts . |
| 25 | Erm the the third prize was erm seven hundred and fifty eight pounds sales from South Suffolk , they got a hundred pounds , and seven other er constituencies who sold between six hundred and ninety three pounds seventy five and five hundred and one pounds ' worth of tickets |
| 26 | If he and Zoe had half each , it would give him about forty thousand pounds ' worth of capital . |
| 27 | Police believe they still escaped with thousands of pounds ' worth of goods . |
| 28 | then if you went again in the autumn you you ge you get er fifty pounds ' worth of vouchers or something , yo you go half price . |
| 29 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
| 30 | I mean , that must be a thousand pounds ' worth of air tickets . |