Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [adj] thousand pound " in BNC.
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1 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
2 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
3 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
4 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
5 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |