Example sentences of "thirty [noun sg] a week " in BNC.

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1 And erm being as he put a new table in the mill he thought we could work for thirty pound a week less , on this table .
2 And we could produce more slate on erm thirty pound a week less in wages .
3 Well no when we started when the strike started in the mill , I told then , you know y I do n't know what you are going to do with us , I said , but the way you are carrying on now you are going to bring trouble into this quarry , cos these lads are n't going to give in to you at all that quick , what you 're trying to do , make them work for thirty pound a week less , so you better think it over now , I said , before it gets any worse .
4 He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it .
5 And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract .
6 T we were thirty pound a week less .
7 I du n no whether he he thought his father paid us too much , I du n no , but erm that 's what he had in mind to start with , was drop the wages down thirty pound a week .
8 Er thirty pound a week .
9 and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week
10 He 's on the dole , lucky if he 's gets thirty pound a week .
11 Do you know a lot of them girls at work pay twenty five and thirty pound a week board ?
12 I think you 're allowed you 're allowed to make thirty pound a week profit fifteen hundred pound a year , anything over fifteen hundred pound on your business they got ta pay tax .
13 Because a , a , a labourer w was only earning thirty shilling a week .
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