Example sentences of "over a [adj] pound [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 2 | Over a million pounds of damage was caused by the fire , but no one was ever caught . |
| 3 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 4 | We 've invested well over a million pound in micro-computers for the teaching of pupils right across the three phases of first , middle , and upper schools . |
| 5 | The sums of money allocated on the basis of these unreliable estimates are large : each additional child aged 5–17 in a lone-parent family attracts just over a thousand pounds in GRE . |
| 6 | Well Mr was over a thousand pound for the gall bladder operation |