Example sentences of "[art] [adj] pounds a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I understood the eighty pounds a week anyway . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'm not enduring any more of it ; you can keep the hundred pounds a year , I can earn it dressmaking and trimming millinery . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A thousand pounds a month . |
| 13 | A thousand pounds a month , that 's what we set the plan up for . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | Only a thousand pounds a week , yacht included . |
| 16 | It 's expensive , the habit can cost a thousand pounds a week . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | on a ten pounds a week , it 's nonsense . |
| 20 | Er , no nine pounds a month is n't it ? |
| 21 | The company decided to put all it 's litigation work , worth over a million pounds a year , out to tender . |
| 22 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 23 | However , after spending some time amid the pandemonium of this noisy office , Anita had come to one definite conclusion : Laura might well earn an absolute fortune — reputedly a quarter of a million pounds a year — but , as far as Anita was concerned , she certainly deserved every penny ! |
| 24 | Two workshops for the disabled could be closed to save a council nearly half a million pounds a year . |
| 25 | The air ambulance is available to all ambulance services within flying time of the West Midlands , but it 's trial period of one year expires in May … and without a promise of half a million pounds a year it wo n't fly again . |
| 26 | Police protection for members of the Royal Family living in Gloucestershire is costing council tax payers more than a million pounds a year . |
| 27 | But local hoteliers are warning that changing the venue would cost the local economy a million pounds a year . |
| 28 | Shutting it down will save the National Health Service almost a million pounds a year . |
| 29 | Closing Over , much of which is already locked up will save the NHS almost a million pounds a year , which will be spent on more community nursing and rehabilitation . |
| 30 | Now the Meningitis Trust has a turnover approaching a million pounds a year , a full-time staff of 16 , and trials begin in Gloucestershire next year on additional vaccines . |