Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 2 | One rioter , on the point of attacking a non-Catholic property , asserted : " Protestant or not , no Gentleman need be possessed of more than £1,000 a year . " |
| 3 | In 1992 the NHS spent more than £1,000 a head on the over-75s , compared with less than £250 each on under-65s . |
| 4 | ANNA the elephant is earning more than £1,000 a week for her owners — just by doing what comes naturally . |
| 5 | The mayor of Darlington is costing the town more than £1,000 a week according to recent figures . |
| 6 | They will spend more than £40 a week on oil — that 's £2,000 a year — but you could spend £3,000 on a modern filter system and that will be paid back in 18 months . ’ |
| 7 | Thus the person being cared for must be receiving attendance allowance , in recognition that s/he is ‘ severely disabled ’ ; the carer must not be in full-time education or earning ( from April 1992 ) more than £40 a week ; carers can not take more than four weeks ' holiday in any six-month period , nor can the disabled person be in hospital for more than four weeks at a time . |
| 8 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |
| 9 | Our average weekly wage is less than £40 a week . ’ |
| 10 | At today 's rates residents would be expected to pay less than £40 a week . |
| 11 | The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d . |
| 12 | It is worth thinking about , because if you are on a wage of less than £60 a week , the difference in cost between paying 3.85 per cent and 5 per cent of your earnings is not very great . |
| 13 | On a general note , the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that the poorest households ( with less than £60 a week of disposable income ) spend 14 per cent of their income on fuel , compared with 3 per cent by the very rich ( over £800 per week ) . |
| 14 | CITES , which is run on a budget of less than $3m a year , is facing a financial crisis . |
| 15 | The second adjustment is less recognised , but more noteworthy : Japanese businesses are coming to believe that the country 's long-term rate of economic growth may be no more than 3% a year . |
| 16 | In the late 1980s , the economy was growing at more than 10% a year . |
| 17 | According to data collated from International Data Corp , Dataquest and CMP Market Research for 1992 , the dynamic data visualisation tools market accounts for about 49% of the workstation graphical user interface market but is growing at less than 10% a year . |
| 18 | SOUTHERN Electricity has bought Thermal Transfer ( Holdings ) , an environmental control systems business with sales of more than £15m a year . |
| 19 | Two men from poor northern city backgrounds , who later became very wealthy , tried to set up their elderly parents in comfort : Andrew Carnegie , American millionaire bachelor , gave his Scots mother , ‘ my best friend and trustiest counsellor ’ , a house and a carriage and pair as he had promised her when young , while a Manchester mill-owner failed to persuade his old mother to spend more than £1 a week , but ‘ would pet her like the sweetheart she was . ’ |
| 20 | And it would be probably less than £500m which means less than £1 a week for the average family on income-related benefits . |
| 21 | Mr McLeish said yesterday that only one in nine of Scotland 's long-term unemployed ( 85,000 ) would benefit and that net new money for Scotland amounted to less than £1 a week for each unemployed person . |
| 22 | Fuel there currently costs more than £1 a litre — if motorists can find it . |
| 23 | Over the medium term , however , the new Teachers ' Pay Review Body is likely to make teaching markedly better paid — nearly half of all secondary school teachers now earn more than £20,000 a year — which will take much wind out of the NUT 's sails . |
| 24 | In 1967 , the TUC published a proposal for a 3 per cent tax on wealth holdings of more than £20,000 a year . |
| 25 | In 1977 , 22 per cent of female part-time employees were earning less than £15 a week , which at the time defined the boundary of non-employed for social insurance purposes ( that is , neither they nor their employers have to pay national insurance contributions ) . |
| 26 | As he will know , those in work who earn more than £15 a week lose £1 for every £1 that they earn . |
| 27 | If it is less than £1.05 a week , it will be paid as a lump sum once a year . |
| 28 | It 's not expensive — stick to the free services and dial off-peak and you 'd be hard pushed to run up more than £20 a quarter with a couple of weekly calls . |
| 29 | Although never destined to flourish as an active conduit for combined activity , Pateman linked District students with the WETUC scheme for the remission of fees where appropriate — in aggregate usually never more than £20 a year . |
| 30 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |