Example sentences of "about a [num] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was reading in the paper this morning , a chap , he 's a director of a big company in Birmingham , who was the world 's number one football fan , he used to spend about a thousand a year watching football , you know . |
| 2 | Erm the guy down who 's just done my my club earned himself eighteen hundred pound in one week and he paid about a hundred a twenty quid out for bed and breakfast . |
| 3 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 4 | They get about a hu , they get about a hundred a day |
| 5 | A House of Commons Library reference note on the latest housing benefit changes points out that these cuts alone will result in an annual saving of £1.8 billion ( Public Expenditure White Paper , Cmnd. 228 — II , table 15.6 ) , while reducing by about a million the number of people eligible for housing benefit . |
| 6 | All the same , he now sees 136 visitors each Saturday , against about a dozen a year ago . |