Example sentences of "pounds over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , a National Audit Office report is thought to have concluded . |
| 2 | The Department of Trade and Industry may have lost millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace , according to a National Audit Office report . |
| 3 | ALLEGATIONS that the Department of Trade and Industry may have lost the taxpayer millions of pounds over the sale of the Rover Group to British Aerospace are to be made by the National Audit Office , Parliament 's financial watchdog . |
| 4 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 5 | He must have embezzled thousands of pounds over the years . ’ |
| 6 | ten thousand pounds over the limit not on your death but on your spouses death remember . |
| 7 | You are , you are , perhaps you are , you , you 're a little , two or three pounds over your fighting weight for a man of your height , but still , |
| 8 | Chairman chairman there seem to be when I looked at it there seem to a number of headings here that I could n't account for and I 've asked the chair of the finance committee , she could n't account for them either , and I think it 's , whilst I understand the reasons for going and I 'm sure we would have approved them , I think it 's actually quite important that all these small sums , wh when you add them up over this erm over this month and you look at them , are quite large over the budget that we have have already adopted and the things that we wanted to do , and it concerns me that some of these things which are maybe very sensible , actually reduce our effectiveness of doing things that the council 's agreed that they are going to do this year and next year , the seventy six pounds here , the thirty pounds later on , fifty four pounds for large thorn plants et cetera , et cetera , and a hundred and fifty pounds over the budget on the Christmas lights . |
| 9 | Our target is to raise , in cash and in pledges , an additional twenty five million pounds over and above our normal fundraising . |
| 10 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 11 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 12 | His financial controller Roger Richardson came up with a system of false accounting , which enabled them to borrow millions of pounds over a three year period and keep the company going . |
| 13 | Now the group 's pledged 2 000 000 pounds over the next 4 years to setting up similar hostels elsewhere . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON 's Bank Top railway station has benefited from a major facelift costing millions of pounds over the last decade . |
| 15 | This must be quite disappointing to the Danes who have spent millions of pounds over the years building up ‘ Danish ’ as a trademark on a par with Bisto or Nescafe . |
| 16 | sixteen hundred pounds over the bar . |
| 17 | Save four pounds over there . |
| 18 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 19 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |