Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] [num] pound " in BNC.
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| 1 | A businessman has given five thousand pounds to a dying man so that he and his family can stay in their home . |
| 2 | Welcome back : A two-man computer company has won two million pounds in damages from games giant Nintendo who tried to stop them marketing a revolutionary new invention . |
| 3 | The annual cost of crimes involving cars in one city has exceeded five million pounds . |
| 4 | Britain has offered several million pounds of aid , which includes communications equipment , bullet-proof vests , naval patrol craft , police training and the joint naval patrol . |
| 5 | An appeal in the parish magazine has raised three thousand pounds , still leaving them five thousand short . |
| 6 | British Rail has spent fifteen million pounds to make doors on high-speed trains more secure after a number of deaths of passengers falling-out . |
| 7 | Since taking over Wheal Jane from Consolidated Gold Fields in 1981 , Rio Tinto has spent several million pounds improving production methods . |
| 8 | A school fire in Buckinghamshire which has caused fifty thousand pounds damage is being treated as arson . |
| 9 | A two thousand pound bomb has caused twenty million pounds damage at forensic laboratories in Ulster used to investigate terrorism . |
| 10 | It also seems as if they are at last more prepared to listen to the needs of the local skaters and on top of this a local developer has pledged ten thousand pounds towards the new facility so the future do n't look so gloomy after all . |
| 11 | But Roger Mott insists his company has lost fifty thousand pounds — and it will cease trading after March 6 , the deadline for ticket exchange . |
| 12 | A former prisoner from Cardiff has told the court that Gardiner said he 'd offered twenty thousand pounds to Chalky White not to give evidence against him . |
| 13 | Telling me , one of the lads was telling me there was a guy he was a cook , and he 'd got sixteen hundred pounds from this . |
| 14 | But I , in my workings out , I 'd thought five hundred pounds was the you know you can give 'em a lot less than that , and not , not gon na fund much of an activity , I do n't think the silence was deafening . |
| 15 | I see you 've add three hundred pounds , is that right ? |
| 16 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , if it had n't rained so hard , I 'd have won two hundred pounds easily , my love , ’ Troy was saying . |
| 18 | I might have earned twelve thousand pounds last year , I 'd like to earn fourteen , say fifteen thousand in my first year with Abbey Life . |
| 19 | So he 's took seventy three and he 's giving her seventy three she would have earned sixty three pound on her own ! |
| 20 | When he looked at the tremendous penalty borne by the aircraft in regard to the armour plating carried , the first thing to go was a huge ½″ thick slab that could have graced Fort Knox , but which protected the W/Op and the cabin crew , and that must have weighed several hundred pounds . |
| 21 | This French system was one contender for a weapon that would have cost two billion pounds . |
| 22 | Erm , I recognise that erm , within the report it does state erm , that there is the cost of it , and erm , and in Lancashire it may have cost three million pounds etc , it does n't say what it specifically was . |
| 23 | If we moved in then we 'd have to spend fifty thousand pound to get it up to scratch . |
| 24 | But there are two other prices where you can sell up from a full page and that 's that pre a premium slot like you see there and the chemist there will have paid twelve hundred pound . |
| 25 | And he 's supposed to have got four thousand pound from them . |
| 26 | Bacon died earlier this year , and is reported to have left sixty million pounds , in his will published in September . |
| 27 | Teague , who 's thirty-two and a self-employed builder , claims to have lost five thousand pounds in earnings because of the injuries . |
| 28 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 29 | You must n't use modern things on them or it 'll really wrock them irreparably and you 've done four thousand pounds worth of damage before you know it . |
| 30 | She tore across the dealing room , then up three flights of stairs , screaming that she had closed Sir Willie , and that she had made several thousand pounds in that one day . |