Example sentences of "[num] pounds [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er , probably about er in them days they used to call them twelve score and then so it 'd be twelve , two 's or something that 's two hundred forty pounds I suppose like , you know and er , but most of the people er . |
| 2 | Over forty pounds I bet . |
| 3 | They 're in fact five hundred and one thousand , one hundred and thirteen and if Mr is erred by one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds I would hope he 'd forgive him , the fact is that this year 's budget for those two buildings er , is that amount . |
| 4 | He reckons he 's got six pounds you know and it 's just so distracting . |
| 5 | So I 've got two lots of three pounds I 've got six pounds altogether . |
| 6 | Eighty three pounds I think . |
| 7 | Three pounds I get for running it . |
| 8 | I think we should up up it from eight pounds it 's worth it is n't it ? |
| 9 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 10 | If you go and buy a a T V for a hundred and fifty pounds they 'd say thank you , a hundred and fifty pounds , plus VAT at a hundred per cent is another hundred and fifty to go to the government |
| 11 | and a cable tidy , that sounds quite good , these are half price things for ten days only There 's a remote control colour television for one thirty nine , ninety nine , save fifty pounds they 've got the dear tapes here look , erm six and a half hours video tapes , recommended price seven ninety nine can get for three ninety nine and there 's another one here three pack , twelve hours video tape for six ninety nine must end Saturday November the twenty ninth , oh perhaps I 'll buy you one of those , oh I have bought you a birthday present have n't I ? |
| 12 | And we commence this morning with Lot number one Lot number one is showing to my right here , the ivory carving at fifty pounds at fifty pounds at fifty pounds you want it for fifty pounds , thank you sir , fifty I 've got now , fifty pounds is offered at fifty five at fifty five , sixty , sixty five seventy , seventy five eighty five ninety ninety pounds in the back row at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , any further bids at ninety pounds at ninety pounds . |
| 13 | I think fifty pounds you know before they have to no it is n't my credit limit |
| 14 | Still , for two hundred and fifty pounds he had no room for complaint . |
| 15 | ‘ Some people work hard all their lives and still have nothing , ’ I reminded him , thinking of the fifty pounds I 've saved for the gas bill . |
| 16 | Lot number twenty twenty is a quantity of stands there we are , we 've got a sample showing for you just a sample showing fifty for the lot the whole lot there for fifty pounds at fifty pounds want them for fifty pounds thank you sir , fifty pounds I 've got , at fifty five going on fifty five , sixty pounds , sixty five coming in sir ? |
| 17 | Lot number twenty two twenty two , the gilt-bronze and enamel model showing at a hundred and fifty pounds one fifty I 'm offered , thank you , one hundred and fifty pounds I 've got , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , ninety two hundred and twenty , forty , sixty two eighty , three hundred three hundred pounds against you at three hundred , anybody else ? |
| 18 | Lot number sixty four Lot number sixty four there 's another one showing for you , fifty for this one , at fifty pounds thank you , fifty is offered at the back at fifty pounds I 've got I can and will sell for fifty pounds only , any further bids at fifty five sixty going on sir ? |
| 19 | That 's despite the(£766,000) seven hundred and sixty six thousand pounds they made on the transfer market last season , after parting with Paul Simpson to Derby , and Lee Nogan to Watford . |
| 20 | But while one kept her talking , the other stole the five thousand pounds she had hidden in her wardrobe . |
| 21 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 22 | The thought of the twenty-five thousand pounds he had pledged in the belief that he was getting a skilled crew left her too daunted to frame a suitably crushing reply . |
| 23 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 24 | ‘ Naturally , I demand your written undertaking that the eighteen months ’ hard labour I have agreed to do here cancels out , fully and forever , the three and a half thousand pounds I owe you . ’ |
| 25 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 26 | Erm resolution eight er , set out in the notice of the meeting to increase the aggregate annual sum available for directors ' fees to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds I put the resolution to the meeting those in favour any against I declare the resolution carried as an ordinary re resolution . |
| 27 | Lot number ninety four showing here on my left there 's there you are showing for you Lot number ninety four and I have two thousand offered for them , at two thousand pounds I 'm bid , at two thousand two hundred , four hundred , two thousand four , two thousand six two thousand eight , three thousand three thousand two hundred , three thousand five three thousand eight four thousand , four thousand two hundred four thousand five hundred at four thousand five hundred , four thousand eight hundred five thousand pounds five thousand five hundred six thousand six thousand seven thousand to my left and selling for seven thousand pounds , anybody else ? |
| 28 | Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ? |
| 29 | On my daughter 's wedding day ten thousand pounds I 'll give away . |
| 30 | Britain 's smallest house is for sale at one and a half thousand pounds I 'll buy it |