Example sentences of "[art] [adj] pounds [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can just leave the bags here , ’ Harley waved the porter with his load to the centre of her apartment 's immaculate sitting room , then pressed a few pounds into the man 's furtively extended hand and hustled him out . |
| 2 | Car boot sales are a great way of clearing out the attic , and making a few pounds into the bargain . |
| 3 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 4 | A man armed with a handgun has stolen around a thousand pounds from an estate agents . |
| 5 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 6 | These are probably in the region of half a million pounds at the moment , which does not bode well for the company which may be trying to raise half a million pounds of equity . |
| 7 | The festival is good for the economy , bringing in a million pounds to the area . |
| 8 | It 's been revealed that multi-millionaire Paul Getty is donating a million pounds for a building to house the map and the famous chained library . |
| 9 | He says you have to be realistic and who 's going to pay a million pounds for a player who 's thirty in october . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And how do you react to Paul Getty out there in America agreeing to put a million pounds into the pot ? |
| 12 | I put that as an amendment , not reiterating the entire Labour budget , but I asked the Liberal Democrats , who purport to want to erm provide that sort of service to vulnerable people could they not accept that extra half a million pounds as an amendment , and two out of the group abstained , the rest of them voted against that as an amendment . |
| 13 | All these are policed by Gloucestershire 's royal protection squad — and the county 's tax payers contrubute a million pounds towards the bill , which comes out of the police budget . |
| 14 | The charity aims to raise up to half a million pounds from the scheme . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From nothing he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds by a combination of sustained hard work and practical technical ability . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 19 | He or she can go to seed having bought a mansion and put a million pounds in the bank . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child 's family . |
| 22 | Well I 've switched my office phone over and , well they actually wrote to me , but I 've switched mine over to this er discount , if you do more than a hundred pounds worth a quarter . |
| 23 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |
| 24 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |