Example sentences of "'s [num] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well the wages then was er w started at er ten shillings , ten shillings a week , that 's fifty P a week , you see .
2 So his daddy cut it down to twelve pound a fortnight , that 's six pound a week
3 That 's three times a day .
4 John Hill from Cheltenham is a signwriter by profession … on water he 's three times a world champion …
5 For those of you who think self-employed actually means well I can crawl out of bed at elevenish , work till fourish , that 's three days a week because the other two days I can have a couple of rounds of golf , Thursday and Friday , those of you who think that 's what self-employed means , are gon na fail .
6 And they 're all ex stock and the update I every season , and I mean every season , that 's three seasons a year .
7 That 's fourteen pounds a month term assurance .
8 for that sa it 's four er er that 's fourteen pound a month , the difference
9 oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life !
10 ‘ And it 's ten shillings a week ? ’ he asked the man .
11 Ah it 's ten p a pint .
12 and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think .
13 That 's ten quid a time is n't it ?
14 I was gon na say it 's ten pound a night each at that place we saw that was lovely were n't it ?
15 It 's very expensive to for what it is , I mean it 's fifteen pounds a ticket but if you , if you 're a member of course you get in reduced
16 Hundred and ten Fishergate which I think is the side of Jacksons that 's fifteen pounds a week .
17 It 's twelve pounds a round or fifteen pounds a day .
18 It 's twelve pound a head .
19 There 's one thing a man
20 Cos that 's one reason a lot of Harlow people do n't know what 's on do n't erm you know they they do n't really have contact with erm they do n't always use Harvey .
21 I mean if it 's twenty quid a year or summat like that I 'll pay it you know .
22 Edinburgh and it 's thirty pounds a day .
23 I mean that 's two grand a month .
24 It 's two pound a year for the .
25 And erm , it 's only seventeen hours , it 's four hours a day so that 's why it would suit somebody who 's married .
26 ‘ I never 'ad a French lady lodger before — mind , it 's four shillings a week , being a nice large front room with a comfortin' bed and an 'andsome fireplace . ’
27 So it 's four times a day for ten days , it 's not Amoxil
28 Faced with the prospect of Nissan 's Washington plant in the UK training its sights on the mainland and upping exports to as much as 70 per cent of production — that 's 140,000 cars a year by 1992 — the two most powerful men in French industry locked themselves behind doors and decided then and there to up the ante in the fight against the Japanese .
29 For a single person it 's seven pounds a week , more than three hundred and fifty pounds a year .
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