Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] a month " in BNC.

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1 They said I could work just in termtime as long as I give them notice of the definite weeks a month in advance . ’
2 In 1872 he served briefly on Birmingham town council , being elected to fill a casual vacancy in October only to be defeated at the municipal elections a month later , but by this time it was apparent that he was a talented organizer and in 1873 he was appointed full-time secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association in succession to William Harris .
3 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 .
4 Almost a million new jobs have come to the state since 1990 , many in pharmaceuticals and electronics , making up for the 1,000 jobs a month which have been lost in mature heavy industries .
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 The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground .
9 Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ?
10 It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available .
11 The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month .
12 5029 is due to remain at Bury until the end of February , and is subject to a six steamings a month agreement , so it should see extensive use , and provide plenty of opportunities to experience GW ( four-cylinder power in Lancashire ) .
13 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 .
14 A thousand pounds a month .
15 A thousand pounds a month , that 's what we set the plan up for .
16 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
17 A thousand products a month come through the repair area .
18 A thousand products a month come through the repair area .
19 The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse .
20 Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 .
21 Er , no nine pounds a month is n't it ?
22 The company has been losing more than a million pounds a month and blames the collapse on cheap foreign imports and the recession .
23 The teachers are all on strike , hardly surprising when they 're only paid a hundred dollars a month , so all Alejandro 's kids are at home getting under their mother 's feet . ’
24 His plan , he explained , was to become a good enough draughtsman to earn a hundred francs a month and so support himself modestly without assistance .
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