1. By converting pounds to other currencies investors are gambling that the pound will fall. 2. Despite the complex injection system, it should only add a few hundred pounds to the cost of the bikes. 3. Insurance companies are having to shell out millions of pounds to the victims of the floods. 4. The government has lent millions of pounds to debt-ridden banks in contravention of local banking laws. 5. Flatbed plotters range in price from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds. 6. To maintain the exchange rate at this level the Bank of England will have to supply sufficient pounds on to the foreign exchange market to close the gap. 7. A party at Lechlade earlier this month cost the force about seventy-five thousand pounds to police, equivalent to the cost of two murder investigations. 8. The government is giving back nine and a half million pounds to Oxford City Council, after admitting a mistake in the calculations for the housing budget. 9. Well, young Alan may be wilder, may even swear more but old Geordie Ned, a pound to a penny, is funnier. |