Example sentences of "a [adj] dollars a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 2 | ‘ Listen , if I was n't just John Dyson , but The John Dyson , people would n't even waste their time asking me to do ten-guinea talks for the Overseas Service — they 'd know I 'd be fully occupied doing pieces for Playboy and Esquire at a thousand dollars a time , and going on television at a hundred guineas an appearance . |
| 3 | It contained a platinum US Approach card , a brick of travellers " cheques , and a cash-facility authorization at a Fifth Avenue bank for a thousand dollars a day , if needed . |
| 4 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | Hey and listen , Pat , I do n't want to see or hear any reference to that part of the plan which shows that we can save up to a billion dollars a year by supplying components from the European plants to fit US manufactured vehicles . |
| 6 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 7 | So what 's different about Mark 's plan to sell components from our European plants into the United States , if we can save the Corporation a billion dollars a year by doin' so ? , |
| 8 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 9 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 10 | In an attempt to prevent any further loss of the country 's mangroves , Ecuadorian environmentalists are calling for strict control over the expansion of shrimp farming , a key export industry which earns Ecuador half a billion dollars a year in foreign exchange . |
| 11 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 12 | I 'm not making a million dollars a performance , but I do damn well , and I do n't think people should make a million dollars for a film . |
| 13 | Now that he has advanced to the front ranks of the most expensive and super-hyped entertainment on earth , Brundle has acquired some of the essential accoutrements of a global celebrity who earns over a million dollars a year . |
| 14 | Is this man being paid a million dollars a year for a driving technique which is dispensed by every BSM instructor ? |
| 15 | The company needed a million dollars a day simply to function and could no longer generate the money . |
| 16 | Today Loblaws makes about half a million dollars a week on its 20 or so ‘ green ’ products — and sales are increasing . |
| 17 | The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’ |