1.   A few pounds a month will guarantee the loan is repaid if the worst happens.

2.   Computer game pirates cost the industry twenty million pounds a year.

3.   I pictured myself picking at least three hundred pounds a day and took the job.

4.   The building trade alone, which is particularly vulnerable to paramilitary intimidation, loses millions of pounds a year.

5.   Beer cost three pounds a bottle.

6.   Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra thousand pounds a year!

7.   I think I ended up by having just over a pound a week or something like that.

8.   Nora did not say it but she and John gave between three and four thousand pounds a year to these various causes.