Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [adj] pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between now and December , the company estimates that revenue will be down by a million pounds . |
| 2 | Start off with a hundred pounds and add thirty five percent on . |
| 3 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 4 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 5 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 6 | Phillips Auctioneers in Oxford is working with other branches throughout Britain to raise up to a million pounds for local charities in the ITV Telethon '92 . |
| 7 | The Burleigh group set off from London on Friday morning and they 're hoping their efforts have raised up to a million pounds for the 2 hospitals . |
| 8 | The fund will provide grants for up to a thousand pounds for these organisations to spend on such training . |
| 9 | Some sites can go and order everything up to a thousand pounds . |
| 10 | It will also replace a rotten back door , under a scheme with the local district council which offers grants of up to a thousand pounds for such work for elderly people in the town . |
| 11 | But a litter of nine Chinese Shar-Pei puppies are expected to fetch up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 12 | But already they carry a price tag of up to a thousand pounds each . |
| 13 | The parents can now be fined up to a thousand pounds for the children , because they have n't carried out the instructions of the court . |
| 14 | We do actually cover up to a thousand pounds parts and labour with a wide range of cover across the board . |
| 15 | Yes , but if you move on to that to the mainstream of our policies , which is five and six , that covers up to a thousand pounds parts and labour . |
| 16 | Scotsmen , Englishmen , and Welshmen joined with local fighters like Spider Kelly , Jackie Quinn , and Rinty Monaghan to slug it out for a few pounds . |