Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] pound a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I said you 're not working for forty pound a week |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At a write off of thirty pound a barrel . |
| 6 | Erm mm , no , you just play it , yo well , you he yes and no , I mean i er you , you , you were ge you were getting in pra i the equivalent of thirty pound a barrel discount erm , which is probably as much as you could er could get , er in , in in a free free house any , er except that you 've got , you know , fifteen , twenty thousand pounds up front as a payment to you . |
| 7 | And you say like five pound a head when they they come in |
| 8 | But we were working for him then for fourteen pound a week . |
| 9 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 10 | And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money . |
| 11 | Up at for five pound a night . |
| 12 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And this is for a terraced houses that used pay thirty five to forty pound a year . |
| 15 | They 're trying to get them up to three pound a packet , that 's what they 're trying to do . |
| 16 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 17 | So his daddy cut it down to twelve pound a fortnight , that 's six pound a week |
| 18 | Does did I hear rightly that that 's now going up to fifteen pound a week ? |
| 19 | Well I ca n't see her living on five pound a week can you ? |
| 20 | four to five pound a week on beer er but he would n't pay a pound a week , and he 's come , a pound a month |
| 21 | ‘ But have you really managed to live here on one pound a week for two years ? ’ |
| 22 | I du n no whether he he thought his father paid us too much , I du n no , but erm that 's what he had in mind to start with , was drop the wages down thirty pound a week . |
| 23 | Erm we will pay bed breakfast and evening meal up to thirty pound a night and I have to say the trainers will always know of some good deals . |
| 24 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 25 | Let's say , that me as an individual , if I was erm , buying a Covermaster Plan , for twenty pound a month , the minimum premium , let's say I could get fifty thousand pounds worth of cover . |
| 26 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 27 | And erm being as he put a new table in the mill he thought we could work for thirty pound a week less , on this table . |
| 28 | Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse . |
| 29 | They can ship it , National Power can ship it half way across the world and get it for eighteen pound a ton . |
| 30 | You got to have a chauffeur , you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to make it worth me while coming off dole at forty pound a week . |