Example sentences of "[adj] five [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some get about a pound a week , while on girl gets a pound a day , another five pounds a fortnight . |
| 2 | With the help of her brothers and their wives , the Guérignys found the pavillon , which they rented for themselves , and for the equivalent of another five pounds a year , the attic of the proprietor 's own house for Montaine and Jean-Claude . |
| 3 | They continued for some five years a guerilla war against the employers . |
| 4 | On a day basis , it 's about forty five pence a day , which is er less than the price of a half a glass of beer . |
| 5 | forty five pence a sheet . |
| 6 | Forty five pence a minute . |
| 7 | forty five pence a copy when you 've got a printer there . |
| 8 | They were paying something like forty five pounds a year for my training . |
| 9 | Forty five minutes a side so it 's erm |
| 10 | Forty five minutes a side is it Jon ? |
| 11 | If they choose to go into an independent sector home , they , and they have a low level of income , they do access what is called the residential care allowance , which is further income support benefit of up to forty five pound a week . |
| 12 | That day in 1958 the Northern Echo also reported that municipal busmen had turned down an extra five bob a week on their £8 15s , that Cliff Jones Britain 's most expensive footballer at £35,000 had broken a leg and carried a front page headline about the Royal family . |
| 13 | But when his second wife Wendy became ill , incurring extra expenses , that was cut to a nominal five pence a year . |
| 14 | In addition to that you get depreciation of one thousand one hundred and forty four pound per year which , by my reckoning is ninety five pound a month in addition to that , as a Methodist Minister you get a standing charge of five hundred and twenty eight pound per year which is forty four pound pe er , per month and then you also through i in the year if you have a major repair needed on your car you get a hundred and eight pound now , if in fact , I had , I have a Vauxhall Nova , and let me take these figures as you are at twenty four P a mile , or twenty four point five P a mile and if that 's all we are recommended , recommending , in other words , there 's no lump sum at all er , that would mean that I would be getting forty nine pound but Methodist , this colleague in Llandudno if he did |
| 15 | But erm er , I feel a lot more comfortable cos I think sixty five pounds a night 's outrageous ! |
| 16 | And er they have a go , er even day and night , and I do n't know anywhere in the country that you can get that sort of service twenty four hours a day , three hundred and sixty five days a year from people who get paid that sort of money , it 's , I think it 's , it 's a marvellous er set-up it really is . |
| 17 | But I 'm , I 'm not paying sixty five quid a night ! |
| 18 | Right , he 's getting more than sixty , sixty five quid a week . |
| 19 | You go into the pick and mix and seventy five P a quarter , so you get next to nothing in the bottom of the bag |
| 20 | but I mean it 's seventy five P a quarter |
| 21 | Yes it 's erm it was seventy five pounds a year at age nineteen |
| 22 | At their small home she worked nineteen hours a day , seven days a week , and was paid seventy five pounds a month . |
| 23 | And erm he actually , he , he started off and , and was very nervous but the summing up of it was , was brilliant erm and I , I would n't put it across as well as what he did but the principle of it was that he , he suddenly turned round and said right I have now changed my job , right , you are now looking at the new managing director of Friends Provident , he says , and the first thing I am going to do is I 'm cutting all your wages to eighty five pounds a week , what are you going to do about it ? |
| 24 | And that was it and erm so then everybody 's saying so , you know , I 'll come banging on your door and saying what do you think you 're doing , you know , knocking me down to eighty five pounds a week or , or whatever it is and , you know , obviously there were various feedbacks from that and then the summing up of it was , so is that what you 're going to do to the D S S when you , when you retire ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'm not paying eighty five pence a day for you to eat sausages . |
| 27 | It is n't eighty five pence a day . |
| 28 | It is eighty five pence a day , yours is ninety pence so you 'd better be even wiser with your choice . |
| 29 | Sailing days offer RYA instruction sessions from level 1 to level 3 five days a week , with free sailing other days . |
| 30 | Any advance on fifty five pounds a diamond ring . |