Example sentences of "an annual [noun sg] of [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | One grandmother , remembered as ‘ dressed all day in black silk ’ , had an annual income of £700 from the New River Company , which she ‘ spent in bringing us up ’ to make up for the incompetence of her solicitor son : she would sit all day ‘ upright in an armchair at the side of the fire ’ , opposite to her son 's . |
| 2 | Her father Thomas was a former Royalist soldier , then agent for a local squire , who in 1675 received an annual grant of £80 from Charles II ; from 1662 he leased the manor at Wilsthorpe , Lincolnshire , which had an annual value of £47 10s . |
| 3 | On 6 October 1840 Sewell reported an annual grant of £200 from the Royal Agricultural Society of England to finance lectures on the anatomy and treatment of the various disorders of cattle , sheep and other domestic animals . |
| 4 | An extrapolation of these figures would indicate an annual turnover of staff from the department as high as 100% — a disquieting percentage even after allowance for the various factors which may accelerate change in a predominantly female workforce . ’ |
| 5 | This confident young brewer , then aged 34 , paid £100 down , signed with a flourish that famous signature on a 9000 year lease at an annual rent of £45 from Mark Rainsford III , and rode through the gate to take possession of his destiny . |
| 6 | Occasionally in England between c .1245 and his death in 1258 , Peter de Grandson was receiving an annual fee of £20 from Henry by 1249–50 , and his son Otho was possibly introduced into the household of Edward , Henry 's eldest son and heir , about this time . |