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Example sentences of "[art] hundred pounds " in BNC.

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1	Though I had small scale maps at three inches to a mile for some areas they are not produced for all the Sahara , nor could I have afforded the hundred pounds they would have cost if they had been .
2	I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’
3	Now the rather depressing side of football pools as you only get twenty eight pounds in the hundred pounds back in an overall figure .
4	‘ A hundred pounds in his wallet and two hundred in his mouth .
5	‘ A hundred pounds is a lot to a man like Cullam .
6	When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him .
7	He carried notes about with him in his wallet , on one occasion , at any rate about a hundred pounds .
8	‘ A hundred pounds , ’ he said .
9	A hundred pounds ?
10	A hundred pounds .
11	And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away .
12	Gloria then added that the pistols for shooting cost over a hundred pounds each and did she know ?
13	The most exciting part of all , though , came with the discovery that the puppy was the one Farmer Bolsover had lost and that it was a pedigree sheepdog worth at least a hundred pounds .
14	A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year .
15	As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction .
16	I then proceeded to vandalise nearly a hundred pounds ' worth of golf club .
17	A hundred pounds and above covered knights and other leading gentry as well as merchants in overseas trade .
18	The money she had drawn out , emptying her account , less than a hundred pounds but better than nothing , was already in her bag .
19	Once she saw , sitting on the pavement before a café , drinking pale green drinks , and embracing , leaning over from their plastic chairs towards each other and embracing , the most beautiful couple ; the man with a face angular and ravaged and tragic , the girl dark and thin , with pale lips in a dark tan face : and she was so moved that she said , aloud to Rosie who was walking with her , " Look , Oh God , look at those lovely people " : and Rosie looked and stared and laughed and said , " Good Lord , what odd ideas you have , I would n't look like that if you gave me a hundred pounds . "
20	She knew that he had a hundred pounds , probably more .
21	She had got over a hundred pounds .
22	The wind was taken out of her sails in the first two minutes when Oswin handed her a hundred pounds .
23	He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself .
24	Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on .
25	So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds .
26	If it 's done a thousand miles , you 'd get nine thousand five hundred and then cos of the mileage they 'd take off a thousand divided by ten , so they 'd take a hundred pounds off that .
27	‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ?
28	Her cache amounted to just over a hundred pounds .
29	A bursary of a hundred pounds , yes .
30	( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow .