Example sentences of "rate [prep] [art] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate for the pound sterling was 1,650,000 roubles in January 1922 and 71,730,000 by October . |
| 2 | This could have forced us to accept fixed exchange rates for the pound , restricting industrial growth and so putting jobs at risk . |
| 3 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 4 | Following this election victory , however , Tory fortunes were more mixed : Butler 's electioneering budget , with substantial tax-cuts , rebounded as imports rose sharply and the exchange rate of the pound came under pressure , forcing the introduction of ‘ stop ’ measures ; Eden 's popularity waned rapidly even before the ignominy of attempted intervention at Suez in 1956 , which then shook the ‘ Great British ’ imperial ideology that provided a pole of attraction to Toryism for sections of all classes in society . |
| 5 | Despite the use of fiscal deflation in the attempt to maintain the exchange rate of the pound , and the difficulties experienced by the new National Board for Prices and Incomes in controlling inflation , which led to a slump in Labour support in mid-1965 , Labour 's electoral support had increased markedly by 1966 . |
| 6 | Everything — growth , employment and prosperity — is to be subordinated and sacrificed to pegging the exchange rate of the pound . |
| 7 | ‘ The position was ’ , he observes , ‘ thus reversed , the investors taking both a prior claim and a higher rate in the pound than was allowed the workers . ’ |
| 8 | Each year the rating authority fixes a rate in the pound and the occupier is obliged to pay rates at that poundage . |
| 9 | Under the uniform business rate , the rate in the pound that businesses pay stays in line with inflation and never rises faster than inflation . |
| 10 | I mean one in seven of our bookings now are long haul holidays , and a large percentage of those will be going to America , and again the exchange rate from the pound to the dollar helps us there . |