Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] pounds ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And there have been two burglaries in Bicester ; last night a Ford truck was stolen and ten and a half thousand pounds ' worth of roofing was stolen from a roofing supply store . |
| 3 | If he and Zoe had half each , it would give him about forty thousand pounds ' worth of capital . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now spreading it over a year means that the project administration jumps dramatically , and there 's about four , five thousand pounds ' worth in there . |
| 12 | plus twenty eight pounds ' worth |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Often the prizes can run to several hundred pounds ' worth of equipment for the school plus valuable cash prizes for children . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Our big problem is that we have over thirty million pounds ' worth of schemes actually in building at the moment , and of course you ca n't stop those without wasting a , an enormous amount of money , so we 're carrying on with those . |
| 21 | 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 . |