Example sentences of "[art] [adj] pound [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could we have people to pay the six pound a night and erm you know a hundred and forty four to start with and just ask people to pay the six pound a night anyway and just get as much back as we can ? |
| 2 | Could we have people to pay the six pound a night and erm you know a hundred and forty four to start with and just ask people to pay the six pound a night anyway and just get as much back as we can ? |
| 3 | There 's one young I work with who ca n't afford to be a member of Clydebank football , Ladies , Women 's Football Club , she 's seventeen , she 's on bridging allowance , she has n't got the money to pay the , the six pound a week it would cost her ! |
| 4 | The extra pound a day for their film work did little to compensate for their tiredness which surely must have been as much due to under-nourishment as overwork . |
| 5 | Oh I understood the eighty pounds a week anyway . |
| 6 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 7 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 8 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 9 | Bought as an ‘ add-on ’ with a house contents policy for a few pounds a year , it should cover you for consumer , household and personal injury claims . |
| 10 | So , for a few pounds a month now , you could build up a very welcome nest-egg for yourself and provide financial protection for your family at the same time . |
| 11 | There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month . |
| 12 | A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens . |
| 13 | It is no use telling a man who has received a thousand pounds a year in giro cheques that he has the means to better himself . |
| 14 | As a result of his intervention , the Chambers of Mr S. C. Stamler QC have covenanted a thousand pounds a year to the Law Library ‘ for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 15 | value for money is another proud boast of the greyhounds … you can own and race a dog for just over a thousand pounds a year and there 's prize money for all … that 's why so many more people are coming racing … why so many are owners |
| 16 | So if you smash your glasses , it 's down to you So let's say we 've set a plan up twelve thousand pounds per annum benefit , a thousand pounds a month , yes . |
| 17 | A thousand pounds a month . |
| 18 | A thousand pounds a month , that 's what we set the plan up for . |
| 19 | Afterall a good horse will cost you a fortune to buy … and then having it trained and ridden by the best will set you back at least a thousand pounds a month … |
| 20 | Only a thousand pounds a week , yacht included . |
| 21 | It 's expensive , the habit can cost a thousand pounds a week . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That 's nearly a thousand pound a week . |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | That 's half a billion pounds every year . |
| 27 | These three decisions alone show the cutting-edge of semi-literacy winning over the high cultural standards that the BBC is supposed to stand for , and indeed the justification — the only one — for the subvention of over a billion pounds a year from the British taxpayer . |
| 28 | Higher excise duty accounts for most of the difference , stores like Tesco reckon it 's losing them sales of half a billion pounds a year . |
| 29 | on a ten pounds a week , it 's nonsense . |
| 30 | Er , no nine pounds a month is n't it ? |