Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] pounds [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been previously owned by Maurice Macmillan MP , son of the late Conservative Prime Minister Lord Stockton , and the Duchy paid over three-quarters of a million pounds for the property . |
| 2 | A yearly budget of a million pounds from the cigarette company make Fusil 's dream for an annual multi-discipline event in the most beautiful corners of the world come true . |
| 3 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 4 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |
| 5 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 6 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 7 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 8 | ‘ We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child 's family . |