Example sentences of "ten pounds a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Laymen who did not hold land worth forty shillings a year , and clerks who did not have a benefice worth ten pounds a year , were forbidden to keep a greyhound or other dog , on pain of one year 's imprisonment . |
2 | And car tax is raised to a hundred and ten pounds a year . |
3 | Yeah , every day is ten pounds a day sort of thing . |
4 | It 's going to be ten pounds a night each |
5 | What a difference it makes , it costs you at least ten pounds a night |
6 | And it was , it was about two hundred pounds a night and got it for ten pounds a night . |
7 | On average the cost here would be , in this particular marquee , it 's a hundred and ten pounds a head for a party for the three days , and that 's exclusive of drink . |
8 | So then break that down , you are talking at least ten pounds a call are n't we ? |
9 | Right and again ten years , monthly premium , and that will be about the same , about ten pounds a month , something like that ? |
10 | Her rent was ten pounds a week , and the babysitter cost a pound a day , which left three pounds to live on — just enough to pay her grocery bill . |
11 | Ten pounds a week on disposable nappies . |
12 | It was lamps , lamps , and I was getting only ten pounds a week there , which was just enough to , which erm , er expenses for one person . |
13 | Allen had never earned more than ten pounds a week , taking part-time jobs during the day so that he could write in the evenings . |
14 | on a ten pounds a week , it 's nonsense . |
15 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
16 | off the , no , yeah ten pounds a week |