Example sentences of "earning up to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Adams , the unions ' chief negotiator , said they would be seeking to ensure production staff were paid the same as those doing similar jobs at Jaguar — in which Ford recently took a stake — who were earning up to £34 a week more . |
| 2 | Fewer than 30 per cent of those earning up to £8,000 go , and fewer than 40 per cent of those earning up to £15,000 . |
| 3 | Fewer than 30 per cent of those earning up to £8,000 go , and fewer than 40 per cent of those earning up to £15,000 . |
| 4 | She was earning up to £180 an hour from rich clients . |
| 5 | One top pop agent reveals : ‘ With a single so high in the charts Felix should be earning up to £2,000 a night in clubs . |
| 6 | Ernest Bevin 's 1933 articles in The New Clarion , later published as My Plan for 2,000,000 Workless , argued that a new state pension of £1 per week ( single person ) and £1 15s 0d per week ( married couple ) paid at the age of 65 to all earning up to £1,000 per annum , on condition of retirement from work , would induce withdrawal from the labour market of the estimated 350,000 existing pensioners aged 65–9 working in industry . |
| 7 | It covered all manual workers and those earning up to a given sum — 430 a year by 1942 . |
| 8 | Senior council officials in Birmingham , some earning up to £65,000 a year — that is more than we poor Members of Parliament get — are living in council properties and paying rents as low as one fifth of market levels . |
| 9 | At the same time the government announced a package of new measures under which ( i ) the minimum wage was increased by 18 per cent from Nov. 18 ; ( ii ) a 40 per cent cut in income tax for those earning up to four times the minimum wage was to take effect in 1991 ; ( iii ) petrol prices were increased by 20 per cent and diesel oil , liquid gas and electricity prices by 30 per cent ; ( iv ) the peso 's rate of progressive devaluation against the US dollar was halved from 80 centavos to an " average " of 40 centavos a day , a depreciation rate of 5 per cent per year , as part of a anti-inflationary move aimed at fixing a future parity for the two currencies and stemming the flight of capital abroad . |
| 10 | Labour 's shadow chancellor John Smith unveils their alternative budget promising everyone earning up to £22,000 a year they would be better Dr Ashok Kumar launched his campaign to retain Langabrugh pledging ‘ I 'm here to Opinion polls show the Tories with a three point Labour say they would scrap the City Technology Colleges if they won power . |
| 11 | The class 1 rate , covering employees earning up to £21,060 would rise by 1 per cent to 10 per cent while self-employed class 4 contributors would increase by 1 per cent to 7.3 per cent . |