Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] pounds in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local farmer is seeking nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation . |
| 2 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 3 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 4 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |
| 5 | Overall , by next April — when nearly 1 million people will gain from this year 's real increase , either directly through income support or through increased entitlement to housing or community charge benefit — we shall in three years have steered an extra one third of a billion pounds in real extra benefit to less well-off pensioners , in a way which I believe the whole House will welcome and support . |
| 6 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |