Example sentences of "[num] pound [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So forty pounds minus the two pounds , or if you want to be totally accurate , two pounds and tuppence , policy fee , will leave thirty seven pounds ninety eight . |
| 2 | I can get if for you for about three pounds for the pure crystals . |
| 3 | Now the rather depressing side of football pools as you only get twenty eight pounds in the hundred pounds back in an overall figure . |
| 4 | Oliver warned him after his round , and offered the option of two hundred and fifty pounds into the Pro Golfers ’ Benevolent Fund , or an official reprimand and a fine . |
| 5 | Apart from the differences of several thousand pounds between the final placings , Ryder Cup points were at stake . |
| 6 | Section three deals with the nineteen ninety three ninety four revenue budget , the main points for this year are that a similar saving on inflation in excess of two hundred thousand pounds can be put towards the extra items of expenditure listed in paragraph three point four , that will fall to the committee 's budget in nineteen ninety three ninety four , in addition the savings generated by the renegotiated electricity maintenance contracts contributes another eighty two thousand pounds , this leaves some two hundred and thirty thousand pounds of the extra commitments still to be financed . |
| 7 | Why , they owe six thousand pounds on the various cards . |
| 8 | And I suggested charging them like sixty pounds for the three nights . |
| 9 | Any advance on ten pounds for the two watches ? ten pounds . |
| 10 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |
| 11 | The company , which is based at Abingdon in Oxfordshire , made three million pounds for the six months up to March this year . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whereas land sales were expected to bring in seventy eight million pounds in the four years of nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety , and nineteen ninety two to ninety three , it now seems the figure will only be about thirty six million , less than half that original estimate . |
| 14 | Next year the full year effect of the revenue budget one point five five million , already two hundred thousand short , the estimated loss of income from reduced placements will now put another eight hundred thousand on that er , so there will be a million next year , so I have to tell you there is a gap of one point three million pounds in the social services budget which we have not yet faced . |
| 15 | About twenty thousand business rate payers who face the largest increases following the nineteen ninety revaluation , will benefit by five point three million pounds from the transitional changes . |