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Example sentences for "one hundred thousand pounds"

  • They were to receive thirty-one thousand pounds a month,--one hundred thousand pounds of it in advance, and another sum at the conclusion of peace.

  • Damages were laid at one hundred thousand pounds, and awarded by a jury at Hertford.

  • A clause was added to a money-bill, offering the reward of one hundred thousand pounds to such as should seize the pretender dead or alive.

  • This message being considered, Mr. Howe moved, that the yearly sum of one hundred thousand pounds should be settled on the prince, in case he should survive her majesty.

  • Yet, notwithstanding the extensiveness of a tax upon such monumental impositions, I will count only upon twenty thousand, at five pounds per annum each, which will amount to one hundred thousand pounds annually.

  • However, there will be the clear yearly sum of one hundred thousand pounds, which may very justly claim a million subscription.

  • And, in order to enable him the better to recruit his army, they granted him the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, to be levied by way of loan upon the subject.

  • From the nobility he desired assistance: from the city he required a loan of one hundred thousand pounds.

  • He renounced the power of the wards, and accepted of one hundred thousand pounds a year in lieu of it.

  • Applications were made to the king for a pardon: even money, to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds, was offered to the duchess of Portsmouth by the old earl of Bedford, father to Russel.

  • For these scandalous expressions, the duke sued Pilkington; and enormous damages, to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds, were decreed him.

  • Oates was convicted of having called the duke a Popish traitor; was condemned in damages to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds; and was adjudged to remain in prison till he should make payment.

  • At eight o'clock this evening they are to be placed in the hands of your cousin, Mistress Jennings, together with the bill drawn on Backwell of Lombard Street, for the sum of one hundred thousand pounds.

  • The great sum of one hundred thousand pounds!

  • Dutch Republic: under the cross is an emerald diamond, of a palish green colour, valued at one hundred thousand pounds, being seven inches and 1 The Jewel Office is shewn for 1s.

  • To all these he adds another sum of one hundred thousand pounds, received as a present from the Subah of Oude.

  • They therefore, at different times, opened two loans of one hundred thousand pounds each.

  • The commissioners recommended that the imperial parliament should guarantee a loan of one hundred thousand pounds, so that the money could be borrowed at a low rate of interest.

  • I am glad to tell Mr. Ainsleigh," said the lawyer, "that the Marquis has handed me securities which show that the sum of one hundred thousand pounds is invested in your name.

  • Government, and I will pay you for them the sum of one hundred thousand pounds!

  • One hundred thousand pounds is not immense wealth, but it is something.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after which; enjoy myself; extra cloth; golden yellow; heaven and; mentioned also; one after the other; one another; one can; one could; one foot; one half; one hundred; one hundred thousand men; one hundred years ago; one might; one ounce; one single; one species; one thing; one thousand seven hundred and ninety; one which; one whom; one will; one would have said; our king