Example sentences of "a [adj] pounds in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bought the painting for a few pounds in the nineteen fifties . |
| 2 | So , you 've got a client who for whatever reason , is , is unable to er , afford the premiums , and providing they 've got a thousand pounds in the fund , they can elect to the , the plan made paid up , whereby the life cover is sustained by the fund and all the other charges , and it 's sustained until the fund runs dry . |
| 3 | Now , I 've won a thousand pounds in the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 5 | He or she can go to seed having bought a mansion and put a million pounds in the bank . |
| 6 | After winning a million pounds in the pools a man was interviewed by a television reporter . |
| 7 | He did n't understand that you have to throw away a million pounds in the first year in order to establish a readership and the faith of advertisers . ’ |
| 8 | there 's total here of a million pounds in the er next financial year when er part Inland Revenue and part of |
| 9 | And that 's why the Ross on Wye firm say its business is booming , while Jensen is more than half a million pounds in the red . |
| 10 | He 's cost us , cost us a million pounds in the first year he was a councillor . |
| 11 | ‘ But Frank , ’ said Bathsheba miserably , ‘ do you realize you 've lost more than a hundred pounds in a month with this awful horse-racing ? |
| 12 | Well it 's just that , you know , a pound , or a hundred pounds today , is not the same as a hundred pounds in a year 's time , or two , two years ' time . |