Example sentences of "live [prep] [n mass] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | £50m CLIFF RICHARD LIVES ON £35 A WEEK |
| 2 | Now she'ss claiming compensation , but Mrs Willies-Williams is broke , living on £30 a week income support , with the DSS paying her mortgage interest of £1500 a month . |
| 3 | When he was on the dole they lived on £114 a fortnight . |
| 4 | In the same decade Peter Thompson was sent to an impoverished Wesleyan circuit in Broughton-in-Furness with six members and no chapel : he lived on sixpence a day . |
| 5 | He was struggling to live on £54 a week and faced a £100 electricity bill . |
| 6 | If you had to live on £25 a week you could , for a while . |
| 7 | There 's an unseemly haste among people who do n't have to live on £25 a week to suggest how they could do it better , manage on a minimum and feed the 5,000 . |
| 8 | Walter Greenwood portrayed an old age pensioner in the 1930s who had to live on sixpence a day after he had paid his rent . |
| 9 | Could you live on £1,300 a year ? |