Example sentences of "[adj] pounds [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 2 | I 'm thinking of either three pounds a ticket you 're getting close to the price of a special chauffeur . |
| 3 | But if you erm went to an ordinary general case it was three pounds a week you got sal er for your er salary . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I would pay two hundred pounds — two thousand pounds every penny I have — to stop you shooting me . |
| 5 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |
| 6 | ‘ Not less than ten thousand pounds a year I 'd guess … canny old fool in command … would not surprise me if … but convinced can succeed … patience and patience is all … please keep up your letters to Colonel the Honourable A. A. Hope , M.P . ’ |
| 7 | They 're bound to be at least sixty , to eighty pounds a pan I would think , if not |
| 8 | Oh yes you got er I think it was about er about twenty pounds a year we got er for for er r rock allowance they called it . |
| 9 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 10 | Fanny will have fifty pounds for wedding clothes , and I 'll give her five hundred pounds the day she marries you . ’ |
| 11 | For anybody in business the two DTP packages we have , NeoPaint and Envision Publisher , are the most professional packages in the shareware market today and at less than one hundred pounds the pair they are the biggest bargain this year . |
| 12 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |