Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight hour a day . |
| 2 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 3 | She paying eleven pound a week for that house in |
| 4 | yeah , she pays eleven , eleven pound a week then ? |
| 5 | Yeah , a hundred and eleven pound a week |
| 6 | I says yo you go out to your flipping eleven pound a week |
| 7 | and he says and I 'm putting in God knows how many hours , he said and we got a drop to fifty pound a day . |
| 8 | That would be twenty five pound a day as well , or fifty pound a day as well . |
| 9 | like that , where it 's labour intensive that you 're paying people maybe thirty , forty , fifty pound a hour |
| 10 | when I had the time , did them all tension and set , you know , but erm , as you say now , they probably cost you about fifty pound a go every time they go away |
| 11 | That 's right and er at that year , that er time , we had a drop of five shillings a week and he had an increase of fifty pound a year . |
| 12 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
| 13 | That 's mister average eight hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 14 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 15 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 16 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 17 | at least fifty pound a week to pay for your food |
| 18 | I mean erm them solicitors sent a letter to him we had a copy come here but erm , he 's got ta pay her fifty pound a week . |
| 19 | You 're gon na lose two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 20 | And a good two hundred and fifty pound a month . |
| 21 | So you can say two hundred and fifty pound a month to buy a place . |
| 22 | And you 're going , you 're getting two hundred and fifty pound a month as well in rent |
| 23 | Mind you saying that , three hundred fifty pound a month to buy a bigger mortgage anyway . |
| 24 | I mean we 're paying two hundred and fifty pound a month so at least he 's getting that coming in . |
| 25 | We 've got fifty pound a month we can play with and we , to buy |
| 26 | And they get what , seven hundred and fifty pound a month as well ! |
| 27 | Yeah , I do n't when we have to pay fifty pound a month poll tax ! |
| 28 | round it and like Dave said it would 've cost him , sort of , seven or eight pound a day in petrol |
| 29 | Erm but you 're talking fifty eight pound a day |
| 30 | Fifty eight pound a day . |