Example sentences of "be [adv] [n mass] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded his letter : ’ The 6p rise I received means I am approximately £2.50 a week worse off . |
| 2 | Internat-ional rates are approximately US$20 a kilo . |
| 3 | I did not receive an answer , but the sum involved would have been about 10p a pint , which could be taken off the retail price and still leave brewers with a profit . |
| 4 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 5 | Shorn of the brewing side , Boddies ' assets are about 210p a share . |
| 6 | Including this , the combined funds in my region are about £20m a year for hospital as against £0.3m for general practice . |
| 7 | Bank issuers have responded to the non-bank challenge with a blaze of publicity about how they are cutting their own fees , which are typically $20–40 a year , or waiving them for new card-holders in the first year . |
| 8 | Calls on mobile phones are now 25p a minute ( peak rate ) on Primetime with half-minute billing , and 20p a minute ( off peak ) with half-minute billing . |
| 9 | By the time they woke up to the fact that many people would be only 2p a week better off , Smith had gained the headlines with the claim that eight out of 10 families gained . |
| 10 | The incentive for the men was that as homeless itinerants their social security would be under £20 a week . |
| 11 | Petrol prices are currently estimated to be about 48p a litre for four-star and about 44 p a litre for unleaded petrol . |
| 12 | The annual cost will be about £3m a year which compares with the £500,000 currently spent on the Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 13 | For pensioners , the Citizen 's Income will be well above the present pension , and for everyone else it will be about £12.80 a week ( at present prices ) . |
| 14 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 15 | The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month . |
| 16 | Finally , add the fresh water and sewerage charges , which together will be about £70 a year . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ That could be serviced for around £100 a month when the rent would be about £25 a week anyway . ’ |
| 18 | Now he needs cover for $3m and the cost will be around $50,000 a year . |
| 19 | But bear in mind that charges for non-emergencies can be around £150 an hour , plus VAT . |
| 20 | Choosing a penn'orth of sweets could be a long job : a gob-stopper , a liquorice wheel , liquorice rope , a chew , each could be bought for a farthing , and many boiled sweets and toffees were only tuppence a quarter . |
| 21 | Their salaries in America were usually $45 a week , the equivalent of £10 . |
| 22 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 23 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 24 | The Victoria 's savings are over £5,000 a year . |
| 25 | It 's only £50 a year — less than a Pound a week — but living 's cheaper in the country . |
| 26 | The only benefit of getting married now is the Family Income Supplement , that 's only £7 a week . |
| 27 | If SunSoft does the port it costs $150,000 , but that 's apparently $150,000 every time it needs to be done even though SunSoft has to change only 5% of the code , an activity that takes only seven to ten days . |
| 28 | A country where the average income is only $350 a year , and where the poor jostle for space as well as food , will never find it easy to bind up its factional wounds . |
| 29 | Although her maximum grant is only £2,845 a year , the banks still see her as a good catch . |
| 30 | Unlike contractors who are paid danger money , MoD civil servants are paid a flat wage ; their average take-home pay is just £120 a week . |