Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] pounds " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was the good of fifty pounds ? |
| 2 | In the end there was little bother , two arrests afterwards and the theft of 300 pounds from a food kiosk . |
| 3 | Any more , it 's in the doorway at twenty pounds twenty two twenty two near me now , any more at twenty two pounds ? |
| 4 | Above about 17,000 rpm the horrible banshee wail is replaced by a more businesslike roar accompanied by a pungent , pulse-stimulating smell of burnt kerosene through the air-conditioning , while the nose-wheel strut compresses under the effect of 1,760 pounds of thrust . |
| 5 | A one of the one of the sentences , , how dare you authorise the withdrawal of fifteen pounds from account without prior notification ! |
| 6 | We therefore have to ask our members to contribute to the upkeep by way of fund-raising activities and this increases their spending on the Institute by many pounds per annum . |
| 7 | And for people who are not on income support , in other words they have means higher than that , but who do receive attendance allowance , their charge will go up from eight ninety at the moment to fifteen pounds . |
| 8 | Unnecessary brutality for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 9 | Mrs Jones was attacked at her home in the village of Hodson near Swindon all for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 10 | It is n't because I keep on going down and filling up the metro with ten pounds worth of petrol and I 'm not making a a trip back and forth to work every day . |
| 11 | " Mr. Osborne stated that he and Mr. Stewart met as requested by the last meeting and made a selection of Thirty-six Books a list of which he had now pleasure of laying before the Meeting for their approval , but the Meeting found that they would need to curtail the list to Twentythree so as not to exceed the ammount of two pounds . " |
| 12 | Lot number sixty four Lot number sixty four there 's another one showing for you , fifty for this one , at fifty pounds thank you , fifty is offered at the back at fifty pounds I 've got I can and will sell for fifty pounds only , any further bids at fifty five sixty going on sir ? |
| 13 | Gentleman in the centre , three eighty and that 's for number eight three six Lot number forty four Lot forty four is the Japanese hand-warmer there 's the hand-warmer for fifty pounds , at fifty , fifty five pounds , at fifty five pounds at fifty five , any more at fifty five , all done ? |
| 14 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 15 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 16 | That 's the limit in total pounds , then . |
| 17 | Erm she would ask that and fine that impose today er , could be paid by her at the rate of five pounds per week erm , she er runs a car her invalidity income amounts to forty six pounds fifteen pence per week and she also receives a super annuation payment from her former employers Goldeson 's Hospital at the rate of a hundred and three pounds per month but she and her husband do have to er to run the home and er , and run the house er , run run the car and she would ask that she 'll be allowed to pay at the rate of five pound per week . |
| 18 | Er they wanted to charge us eighty pence per transaction , and after a lot of argument we managed to pin them down er at er ten pounds for the at at the rate of two pounds fifty per quarter . |
| 19 | He has n't any other commitments and he would ask that erm he be allowed to pay the fine at the rate of twenty pounds per week . |
| 20 | We will order the fines and costs to be paid at the rate of twenty pounds a week . |
| 21 | Cost about one pounds twenty five , or the equivalent of one pounds twenty five P . |
| 22 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
| 23 | And finally a bill for the centre of fourteen pounds fourteen pence , which are just items that Don draws , er a mousetrap , er a bin , etcetera . |
| 24 | Erm it would cost for the four for the four nights of the con conference , that 's from the Wednesday night to the Saturday night inclusive , six pounds a night each will almost cover the cost and we 've fitted in an extra person on the floor at three pounds a night that would clear the cost completely . |
| 25 | The National Federation had to consider all the points when determining the amounts of the new subscription to having raise various figures finally agreed on the amount of nine pounds . |
| 26 | The lot at fourteen pounds . |
| 27 | The lot at thirty pounds . |
| 28 | On the day I was born , Thomas Cook and Son 's were offering an all-in holiday on the Riviera for twenty-eight pounds and sixteen shillings : there were outrages in Ulster , and the Secretary of State for Air said that he saw no future for commercial aviation in Europe . |
| 29 | Stent themselves in the sum of thirty pounds … in the Expectation that Shawfield will … contribute towards finishing it … " |
| 30 | But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid . |