Example sentences of "quarter [prep] a [adj] pounds [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The profits averaged out at a quarter of a million pounds per partner . |
| 2 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 3 | It is n't rare for a quarter of a million pounds to be spent on an act in one year . |
| 4 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 5 | The books of John Sparrow , deceased warden of All Souls College Oxford , will likely fetch quarter of a million pounds at auction . |
| 6 | And the advice that we got was that if we wanted to establish proper ownership and control of that land again , we would have to seek a High Court action , possibly the House of Lords as well , and that total cost would be in the region of a quarter of a million pounds in legal costs , and we also then stood the , well risk of losing the case as well , so we could have spent two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for nothing . |
| 7 | Towards the end of last year we finished a review of all our management costs and our structure costs and , as a consequence , have saved a quarter of a million pounds in our administration . |