Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun sg] 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 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 6 | An extra charge of 20,000 Lire a day is charged if heating is used . |
| 7 | Members paid a fee of one shilling a year and one penny a week for each book borrowed . |
| 8 | This enables our employees to use the equivalent of one afternoon a week during working hours , for approved community activities , always of course , subject to workload . |
| 9 | Ideally , the shadow should spend an uninterrupted week or fortnight with his opposite number , but if that is impracticable , a regular visit of one day a week throughout the term would be satisfactory . |
| 10 | Inman was retired prematurely and his post abolished , and Hunt was given an annual salary of £1,000 for a minimum of one day a week at the Office , although according to the Secretary , he was usually there ‘ nearly half a week ’ . |
| 11 | LEAs could provide nursery schools and classes ; they could provide or finance holiday classes , camps , play schemes , swimming baths , community centres and recreation facilities ; and were given the responsibility ( never implemented ) to ensure that all young people up to age 18 , and not otherwise in education , received part-time further education by attending a ‘ county college ’ for the equivalent of one day a week . |
| 12 | The princely sum of one guinea a month was agreed on , and though it was not as much as Beth would have liked , it was a welcome increase , and one that positively staggered her disbelieving husband . |
| 13 | They will have to reside there for a minimum of one month a year , but this may be waived for up to five years by an annual payment of $5,000 to the Bahamian government . |
| 14 | That they should make of one body a site where the variousness of all other bodies is in some way received . |
| 15 | UBS has been getting an average of one inquiry a day from small banks looking for a bigger uncle . |
| 16 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 17 | A year later and they had all been given a rise of one penny a day . |
| 18 | A fee of one penny a week was initially charged to attend the night classes but after objections from the 18 to 20 year olds the teaching was provided gratuitously resulting in improved attendance with the " boys " advancing rapidly . |
| 19 | If those at the Tate do not believe that the acquisition of one picture a year is sufficient to keep its contemporary art collection up to date , the Government could tell them to use the powers in the Bill to dispose of works of art . |
| 20 | At a write off of thirty pound a barrel . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And sometimes I walked down lace market for me dinner and m And er we used to have to go on er on green , for three penn'orth a breast of mutton , to make stew and hap'orth of mixed potherbs , and do together and it were lovely . |
| 23 | And you say like five pound a head when they they come in |
| 24 | But we were working for him then for fourteen pound a week . |
| 25 | Importers accounted for 57.2 p.c. of sales last month compared with 54.6 p.c. a year earlier . |
| 26 | The government on Dec. 15 won by 309 votes to 256 with one abstention a vote of confidence attached to a bill on regional aid to the south . |
| 27 | I may have mentioned one and that is that not satisfied with one deal a day |
| 28 | Our top people earn top money because A they 're not satisfied with one deal a day . |
| 29 | Bringing a group of patients together is a useful way of getting patients currently content with one injection a day to enquire why they are not having two injections a day as are the other patients they have met . |
| 30 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |