Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] pounds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The scheme relies on private money — in this case a donation of a thousand pounds from BT . |
| 3 | The profits averaged out at a quarter of a million pounds per partner . |
| 4 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 5 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 6 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 7 | The books of John Sparrow , deceased warden of All Souls College Oxford , will likely fetch quarter of a million pounds at auction . |
| 8 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 9 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 10 | Stonegate Teddy Bears stocks hundreds of different models , ranging in price from a few pounds to around £300 . |
| 11 | A mock ‘ Petition of the Pawnbrokers ’ said the petitioners who were in the business of lending small sums on pledges were not legally justified in charging more than five pounds for the loan of a hundred pounds for a year . |
| 12 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |
| 13 | In 1838 he inherited a fortune of a million pounds from his uncle , Robert Holford . |
| 14 | Most campsites also have huts for hire for a few pounds per night per person . |