Example sentences of "a [num] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're trying to make our course into a three day a week . |
| 2 | I I 'm doing a thousand mile a week ! |
| 3 | The only thing that would change them , he commented savagely , was when he became someone who earned a thousand guilder a year . |
| 4 | But I say , it should 've been it should 've been all d I mean everybody 's known about this chiller for a long while and it 's as I say , I mean when was here it was costing a thousand pound a time . |
| 5 | That 's nearly a thousand pound a week . |
| 6 | So it 's I mean , let's see , you were getting a thousand pound a month , you 're now gon na get eleven hundred pounds a month , |
| 7 | Based on twelve thousand pound benefit , for the thirteen week deferred period , on the inflation proof plan , so it 's the best plan , you 're running it from , for thirty years , on a thousand pound a month guaranteed income if you 're off sick or ill . |
| 8 | In anger he stated that no-one ever suggested that a billion dollar a year business should operate without a proper board of management . |
| 9 | A million pound a day ! |
| 10 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 11 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 12 | Often he sang a Livornese song with the words : ‘ I work for a hundred lire a month . |
| 13 | decorators and they were saying that their plumbers they charge a hundred pound a day ! |
| 14 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 15 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 16 | Er a hundred pound a week or a month , a hundred pound a month . |
| 17 | It 's a hundred pound a month in n it ? |
| 18 | Well Sue was Sue erm over the road was telling me erm the money her boys give is a hundred pound a month . |
| 19 | So that girl 's only paying a hundred pound a month mortgage on it 's only a terraced house but |
| 20 | What the thing of course is , and we all know what it is , it 's an effort to penalise those secondary schools who 've gone grant maintained , but they do n't get the extra money , they get a hundred pound a pupil less . |
| 21 | If they can make a hundred pound a week , and they 're only getting fined twenty , they ai n't doing too bad . |
| 22 | Sitting in front of you is a gentleman who was paying what , about a hundred pound a week sir ? |
| 23 | Er a hundred pound a week or a month , a hundred pound a month . |
| 24 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 25 | pay her a hundred pound a week ! |
| 26 | Item twenty as well as twenty six , you are suggesting that meals go up in day centres by fifteen percent , and then on twenty six , we introduce a two pound a week for daycare , for people with learning disabilities . |
| 27 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |