Example sentences of "[n mass] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 2 | SOUTHERN Electricity has bought Thermal Transfer ( Holdings ) , an environmental control systems business with sales of more than £15m a year . |
| 3 | If this continued into this year , it would leave the Government with a £15m a month overspend . |
| 4 | Ministers want to reduce the subsidies paid to dentists for NHS patients because they are treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend . |
| 5 | The Government said dentists were treating more people than expected , causing a £15m a month overspend , but the profession argued if funding was cut they could no longer afford to do NHS work . |
| 6 | She now has a bill of £500 from the council for over-payment of housing benefit , a sum that she has difficulty in repaying on a net income after rent of £23 a week . |
| 7 | Three-times world champion Ayrton Senna would give up £12million a year just to get behind the wheel for nothing . |
| 8 | Dues are said to be $3.8m a head . |
| 9 | Major institutional investors felt the deal gave too much to Mr Ritblat , his family and British Land management — New British Land was to be paid £15million a year in management charges for the first three years , coming down to £10million as properties were sold . |
| 10 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 11 | Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week . |
| 12 | In December 1980 the government announced that a further 192 non-departmental bodies were to be wound up by 1983 , bringing the total savings up to about 23m a year by 1983 . |
| 13 | Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling . |
| 14 | Budhoo was allegedly on short rations from the honeypot because of his intransigence , but he nevertheless pulled $143,000 a year in salary and other subsidies , excluding those related to official travel and mission work . |
| 15 | The average borrower with a £30,000 25 year loan will see monthly repayments rise from £278 a month to £298 if the mortgage rate goes to 14.75 per cent as expected . |
| 16 | Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells . |
| 17 | Normally £19.50 , they have reduced the price to £4.95 a gift most children 's pocket money will stretch to . |
| 18 | County council funds used to operate Greystones which costs £294,000 a year to run will be switched to helping the residents and respite care users . |
| 19 | Tesco Australian Sparkling Wine £5.05 A blend of grapes and very pale in colour . |
| 20 | America also lets exiles send money to Cuba in lots of $100 a household , delivered in Cuban pesos at the official exchange rate of two pesos to the dollar . |
| 21 | Pricing is the same at $100 a user . |
| 22 | Those forced to borrow zinc overnight had to pay a premium of up to $100 a tonne . |
| 23 | Eighteen months ago , most applications software for personal computers cost over $100 a throw . |
| 24 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 25 | Wilcock was doing all right at Pageant , taking home $100 a week , but he quit the job to become the Village Voice 's news editor , at $25 . |
| 26 | The unit in question , for what Telekom calls Systems Customers , is part of its Business Customers division , and was established as part of the thorough restructuring Telekom has set in train ; it serves 500 major companies and organisations , and its business is growing at 13% to 14% a year , against less than 5% overall growth from private customers in 1992 . |
| 27 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 28 | It is probable therefore that from 6d to 9d a week is as much as labourers ' wives in general , hereabout , earn on an average the year through . |
| 29 | At up to £35 a kilo , they are now too expensive to eat and are bought for restocking rivers with edible eel in Europe and elsewhere . |
| 30 | Leading hotels have arranged election night dinners — £35 a head at the Dorchester , £75 a head at Cliveden , former home of Nancy Astor . |