Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and it 's eight pound fifty a bag for smokeless , I ca n't afford |
| 2 | In Henry Kendall & Sons v Wm Lillico & Sons [ 1969 ] 2 AC 31 a course of dealing was established where it was shown that the parties had done business together three or four times per month for three years on the basis that contracts were made orally and the sellers then sent the buyers a 'sold note " containing their terms of trading . |
| 3 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 4 | Whatever we get I say Angie 's is that , carpet 's that thick , three pound odd a roll |
| 5 | pay three pound odd a week . |
| 6 | Well when you 've finished taking them , three pound odd a packet they are . |
| 7 | Okay so let's say if you got three pound sixty a week pocket money . |
| 8 | Okay so I , what I 'd like you to do now is both write down if you had three pound sixty a week , how much would you spend on sweets , on presents , on stationery and how much would save |
| 9 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 10 | Canon Selwyn ( 1872 ) 36 JP 54 a question arose regarding the validity of the Irish Church Act 1869 . |
| 11 | They said a , a normal person living on their own is only entitled to thirty nine pound sixty a week and that 's what I 've got in that book , but I do n't think they realise that I I 'm on me own and I 've got a gas , electricity and everything else to pay out of that |
| 12 | nine pound fifty a head |
| 13 | nine pound fifty a head |
| 14 | And it 's nine pound , did I say nine pound fifty a tank ? |
| 15 | Either nine or nine pound fifty a tank . |
| 16 | I mean , people might desert their partner for five pound sixty a week ! |
| 17 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 18 | Wine , one pound fifty a bottle . |
| 19 | About one pound odd a week . |
| 20 | At the moment it costs around one pound twenty a pint . |
| 21 | Well it 's roughly about five pound and , one pound and I thought he said one pound forty a pint . |
| 22 | yes , and I live in a pensioner 's house , furthest away from the shopping centre and I 've got to take a taxi of one pound forty a day to shop |
| 23 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 24 | There is a category of exempted minor works such as the erection of fences or walls on or around property , provided they do not exceed two metres generally or one metre adjoining a highway . |
| 25 | Answers : I. swear 2. sink 3. drink 4. dull 5. pretty 6. quiet 7. hunter 8. a flash ( or lightning ) 9. a bug in a rug 10. sin 11. saucer 12. whistle 13. brush 14. spit 15. bright 16. gone tomorrow 17. charity 18. blue 19. the seven dwarfs 20. and the world … you … and you weep … 21. … shepherd 's warning . |
| 26 | What ranges from fifty pence to two pound fifty a week . |
| 27 | About the erm , with this erm Cotswold news , I think it 's about two pound seventy a pound |
| 28 | Now we want to know and say we generate a statistic of two point five a T ratio of two point five . |
| 29 | He says no , he says we 've thought about it , I says well you really ought to have it I says if you 're dial dialling a lot of erm , cos they dial a lot of these insurance companies and er mortgage lenders , the head offices , they 're always out in Ottingham , I said the Mercury pin number only cost you seven pound fifty a year , I says you think you can save that in a week so er ha so erm he was on about it , he says who 's the cheapest for that ? |