Example sentences of "earn [n mass] [art] day " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In his famous survey of 1849 Henry Mayhew found that the memory of the sawyers reached back through better days up to 1826 before the saw mills proliferated , to the even more lucrative times of their fathers , when sawyers could earn £1 a day . |
| 2 | His father had been the son of a labourer who had earned 2d a day from ploughing , and such low-paid occasional work was typical of what was available for the children of farm labourers until , in such places as it was not in decline , they could be put to live-in farm or domestic service at around the age of fourteen . |
| 3 | Machine tools of its size and accuracy were so rare at that time that it could earn £10 a day , and it was Clement 's principal source of income for ten years . |
| 4 | Richard did however , work on the dressing floors fairly regularly around this time earning 6d. a day . |
| 5 | Mr Koc had been earning 50p a day doing winter work on a building site in the Turkish capital before he was taken to London . |
| 6 | Mr Koc had been earning 50p a day doing winter work on a building site in the Turkish capital before he was taken to London . |
| 7 | In 1843 there was David earning 3d. a day ; Isaac on 5d. ; and Thomas with 1/ . |
| 8 | The star of the Volkswagen adverts , who earns £1,000 a day , has paid only £21.50 of fees over a court case , says the company . |
| 9 | Mr Wareing said : ‘ I was outraged when I heard of the decision to condemn this poor fellow who earns £28 a day and is bereft of a bowler , which I think coloured the views of the Jockey Club . ’ |
| 10 | Bob Wareing , MP for Liverpool West Derby said : ‘ I was outraged when I heard of the decision to condemn this poor fellow who earns £28 a day and is bereft of a bowler which I think coloured the views of the Jockey Club . ’ |