Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Thieves broke into the Harper and Harper store in Northgate , at the weekend and made off with almost £1,500 worth of equipment the third break-in in a few months . |
2 | But the new lift sector in the UK still has £400m worth of work a year up for grabs , from the smallest nursing home service lift to multi-storey hotel contracts . |
3 | IT is obscene that TV Gladiator Hawk eats more than £120 worth of food every week when people in the Third World are dying of starvation . |
4 | Some plans set a limit of £50,000 worth of cover a year , others allow for the minimum NHS waiting list time to pass before cover is triggered . |
5 | It was currently financing its deficit by selling off $150bn worth of assets a year to other countries and by borrowing money from Japan and Europe . |
6 | And you get the feeling that people kind of beat a , a way through to their particular flat and out again , without looking either to left or right really . |
7 | The planned downsizing means that 5,000 more employees from the current 13,000 — down from 31,000 three years ago — will lose their jobs ; the sales target of $1,400m a year compares with $1,900m now . |
8 | Small reckons that foxes account for £2,000 worth of lambs a year ( assuming £35 for a store lamb ) on his farm . |
9 | 5 = £40 worth of soup a month . |