Example sentences of "[adj] pound a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 2 | She paying eleven pound a week for that house in |
| 3 | yeah , she pays eleven , eleven pound a week then ? |
| 4 | Yeah , a hundred and eleven pound a week |
| 5 | I says yo you go out to your flipping eleven pound a week |
| 6 | That 's mister average eight hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 7 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 8 | But it was n't worth fifty pound a week . |
| 9 | It would probably be fourteen thousand pound a year you 'd work it on two hundred and fifty pound a week . |
| 10 | at least fifty pound a week to pay for your food |
| 11 | I mean erm them solicitors sent a letter to him we had a copy come here but erm , he 's got ta pay her fifty pound a week . |
| 12 | they were on about , talking about it last night were n't they ? , they , back in the fifties they were on eight pound a week |
| 13 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 14 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 15 | You got to have a chauffeur , you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to buy me a hat you 'll have to make it worth me while coming off dole at forty pound a week . |
| 16 | fifty quid a week ones are er forty pound a week and so on . |
| 17 | But she 's on about forty pound a week . |
| 18 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 19 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 20 | Well forty pound a week 's forty pound a week extra |
| 21 | I said you 're not working for forty pound a week |
| 22 | and forty pound a week but |
| 23 | There 's one young I work with who ca n't afford to be a member of Clydebank football , Ladies , Women 's Football Club , she 's seventeen , she 's on bridging allowance , she has n't got the money to pay the , the six pound a week it would cost her ! |
| 24 | Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ? |
| 25 | I said the same I ca n't persuade our chaps on the Yorkshire Moors that they are getting twenty six pound a week , when they 're not , you see ? |
| 26 | It 's about fifty six pound a week is n't it ? |
| 27 | Tina reckons out of her wages she 's got ninety , ninety six pound a week out of her wages just for mortgage and |
| 28 | And the rent was thirty six pound a week . |
| 29 | Six pound a week she gets . |
| 30 | erm , up to the grant status , and then everybody should be on two , er thirty er thirty six pound a week out of that 's got to come everything you 've got , everything you 've got to pay for to drink , whatever |