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Example sentences for "thirty pounds"

  • Phillip sent me thirty pounds; when the picture was last sold, to Edmund Davis, it brought two thousand eight hundred!

  • The debt was small, thirty pounds or so, and the price agreed upon for the portrait was two hundred guineas.

  • Mr. Ionides had bought Sea and Rain for twenty or thirty pounds, and now asked three hundred.

  • Edward Wright, the mathematician, who died in 1615, was his librarian, and received a salary of thirty pounds a year.

  • Thirty pounds, nine shillings was all that was obtained for this fine manuscript.

  • Thirty pounds should be used when seeding alone after summer crops or in corn.

  • Thirty pounds of phosphoric acid are wanted for an acre.

  • Thirty pounds of acid phosphate to each 100 pounds of the manure gives a mixture containing one pound of nitrogen, three pounds of phosphoric acid, and two fifths of a pound of potash.

  • Thirty pounds a year," she said softly to herself, "thirty pounds certain, and a lump sum of two hundred in the bank.

  • If she and her sisters could not live on thirty pounds a year there was still the money in the bank.

  • Inspector MOSS of the Great Eastern Railway Police has just had his pocket picked and thirty pounds stolen.

  • But these things cost money, and it would not be any use starting with less than thirty pounds'-- "Thirty pounds!

  • I forget it now, but it worked out to thirty pounds--carved, gilt, and fitted in place.

  • I gave him the King's very voice at "Master Dawe, you've saved me thirty pounds!

  • You've saved me thirty pounds, Master Dawe, and you've given me good arguments to use against a willful woman that wants my fine new ship for her own toy.

  • You most pay something for your thirty pounds, you know.

  • I want you to lend me thirty pounds, please.

  • She is taken cheaper than the other girls, and all her expenses for one term are abundantly covered by thirty pounds.

  • I knew a lady friend who was never more than thirty minutes in bringing to gaff any salmon of from twenty-five to thirty pounds.

  • Its usual weight reaches fifteen pounds, though it occasionally grows to four feet in length and a weight of twenty-five or thirty pounds.

  • When of large size, from twenty to thirty pounds, it exhibits a bull-like ferocity when hooked, making furious dashes for liberty, and if not stopped in time will eventually take to the weeds.

  • But once fairly gaffed, the angler may feast his eyes on the grand fish, weighing, perhaps, thirty pounds or more, and congratulate himself on a great achievement.

  • Each county was required to build one of these houses, a levy of thirty pounds of tobacco per poll being laid for that purpose.

  • Similarly their Lordships declared in favor of abolishing the fee of thirty pounds of tobacco required for registering surveys.

  • A tandem of six or eight six-foot kites exerts a pull of thirty pounds or more on the main line; but it must not be assumed that such a tandem would lift and carry through the air a weight of thirty pounds.

  • A strain of twenty-five or thirty pounds on the cord is not uncommon; and not only the strength of the cord, but the way of attaching it, is of great importance.

  • For the third part of thirty pounds you could rent a four-roomed house, but what is a four- roomed house, what is thirty pounds, compared to the glory of being a member of a club?

  • Of course betting and beer cannot be done on the nod in my class of life, but one can owe a bit of rent, and altogether I see my way to do a failure up to, say, thirty pounds.

  • Here is a poor devil with twenty-five shillings and a wife and family and, let us say, thirty pounds of debt, and the judge gives him an administration order to pay ten shillings in the pound at five shillings a month.

  • You've saved me thirty pounds, Master Dawe, and you've given me good arguments to use against a wilful woman that wants my fine new ship for her own toy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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