Example sentences of "[adv] than [noun] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time , there were 1.4 million pensioners receiving supplementary benefits of less than £5 a week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had to try and live on less than £18 a week . |
| 4 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 5 | Over half the lone mothers pull in less than £100 a week . |
| 6 | The Council of Europe defines the low paid as someone earning less than £163 a week in 1989 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | They were more than three times as likely as the unemployed to be part of an income unit with an income of more than £100 per week ( 14 per cent and 4 per cent ) and half as likely to have an income of less than £50 a week ( 19 per cent and 41 per cent ) . |
| 10 | But what does the apple mean to the pickers as they stretch and bend , stretch and bend , dawn to dusk , for less than $19 a week ? |
| 11 | If the 50 per cent minimum were in force today , no worker would get less than £112 a week . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Our average weekly wage is less than £40 a week . ’ |
| 14 | At today 's rates residents would be expected to pay less than £40 a week . |
| 15 | At present , employees earning less than £405 a week pay contributions on all their earnings , while above that level no contributions are paid at all . |
| 16 | For example , a study of earnings in Leicester suggests that , in 1990 , 86 per cent of Asian women in employment had gross earnings of less than £150 a week . |
| 17 | The present system operates so that those employees earning less than £43 a week ( i.e. the lower earnings limit ) make no contribution at all . |
| 18 | The major reason why Britain now has 40 per cent of all part-time jobs in the EEC is the structure of national insurance contributions which exempt both employers and employees from paying any contributions on earnings of less than £43 a week . |
| 19 | If it is less than £1.05 a week , it will be paid as a lump sum once a year . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ONE OF the most luxurious hotels in the North-East is being rented from a council for less than £350 a week . |
| 24 | Employers escape paying national-insurance contributions for workers on less than £56 a week . |
| 25 | Businesses which earn more than £400 a week must become VAT registered . |
| 26 | Will my right hon. Friend encourage the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to increase the top limit on national insurance contributions because of the plight in which that would place many of my constituents and people in neighbouring Blackpool who earn under £15,000 a year but during the holiday season earn more than £400 a week ? |
| 27 | Changes announced yesterday mean that anybody with a disposable income of more than £61 a week will have to contribute a maximum of one third of his or her income above the limit rather than the present quarter . |
| 28 | Prior to this date , men between the ages of 65 and 69 and women between the ages of 60 and 64 who earned more than £75 a week had their basic state pension reduced . |
| 29 | A very similar picture emerges in Haringey , but here the local authority has worked out the numbers whose income will be affected by more than £2 a week . |
| 30 | Clearly , combined earnings of more than £2 a week must have quite commonly been brought into the households of mule spinners , while £2.50 would hardly have been exceptional . |