Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] pounds [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year bad debts cost a million pounds a day . |
| 2 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 3 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 4 | It 's expensive , the habit can cost a thousand pounds a week . |
| 5 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 6 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |
| 7 | Oh I understood the eighty pounds a week anyway . |
| 8 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 9 | Now the Child Support Agency says he 'll have to pay a hundred pounds a week . |