Sentences with phrase «hundreds of thousands of pounds»

And how can you warn me against trusting PR material from drug companies when you receive hundreds of thousands of pounds from the government to run your surgery?

A percentage or two difference in fees easily adds up to hundreds of thousands of pounds by the time you're ready to retire.

With hundreds of thousands of pounds they didn't have on what would happen to interest rates.

Interest rates went down and he lost hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Some schools stand to lose up to 1.5 % of their existing funding in the first year, worth potentially hundreds of thousands of pounds to some, while others will be better off.

Many MPs maintained a nominal «main home» in their distant constituencies, where they spent little time, and then claimed hundreds of thousands of pounds to support a metropolitan lifestyle.

When shopping for a truck, not everybody needs to haul hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The physics of flight dictates that you need an exceptional amount of fuel to launch hundreds of thousands of pounds into the air and keep it moving for hours at a stretch.

It will mean individual schools gaining or losing hundreds of thousands of pounds each year, with implications for staffing and resources.

He bowed to intense pressure to quit and save his party further embarrassment and damage from the row over his payment of hundreds of thousands of pounds of public funds to his wife and two sons.

Very famous YBA's (young british artists) have donated work that could have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds in some cases.

Staff are working hard to ensure the commission succeeds, but spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on consultants, problems with matching people to roles, as well as cutting the Manchester helpline has done nothing for their morale.

Top law firms have paid MPs hundreds of thousands of pounds for consultancy services since the start of last year, the latest parliamentary Register of Members» Financial Interests reveals.

A source close to the mayor said: «It is impossible to justify spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on pensions at a time of severe public sector cuts and wage freezes.

In other words, this could have major implications for Remain campaign donors, such as Lord Sainsbury, who never registered as permitted participants but gave hundreds of thousands of pounds in donations.

So now we hear that Andy Coulson was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by News International for several months when he was working for David Cameron's Conservative party.

For the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg said people were «a little baffled by all the various solutions» being proposed to clean up MPs» expenses because «they all fail to deal with the biggest loophole: MPs making hundreds of thousands of pounds on second homes funded by the taxpayer».

«A former banker hand - picked by chancellor George Osborne to help police the financial system donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party.

Free - market, anti-climate change think tanks such as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in the U.S. and the International Policy Network in the U.K. have received grants totaling hundreds of thousands of pounds from the multinational energy company Exxon Mobil.

But can it be right that the rules allow MPs to earn hundreds of thousands of pounds from private legal practice while they are supposed to be an MP?

By Jonathan Leake The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Following the closure of the laboratory and the transfer of its work to AEA Technology, the department will have to pay VAT on these contracts for the first time — an extra cost running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Soulman's has enjoyed an increase in same - store sales during the last eight years, selling hundreds of thousands of pounds of product each year.

A former officer at Exeter city council has been jailed for three and a half years after stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds from the authority.

«Now is the time to turn the page on this whole unfortunate incident, which took only 45 seconds, but has cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds, Mr Mitchell his job and damaged the reputation of the police,» Vaz said.

Some of those are stored as a backup, while the rest are sent to a diamond - growing lab in Amsterdam, which applies hundreds of thousands of pounds per square inch of pressure over time.

The company has been sent hundreds of thousands of pounds of utility products to San Antonio, Houston, and all across the affected areas, along with its own teams of Storm Soldiers armed with emergency response kits to directly lend a helping hand.

Hell, even people like Mertesacker and Walcott should be out of this club by now yet every end of the week they are gleefully rubbing their hands and collecting tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds for doing squats at the club gym.

The documents we have obtained show the enquiry found betting syndicates in Russia, northern Italy and Sicily making hundreds of thousands of pounds betting on matches investigators thought to be fixed.

«Thanks to this Twenty's Plenty deal, tens of thousands of top - flight fans could potentially save hundreds of thousands of pounds in the coming weeks.

If this were to happen, you could end up facing serious court battles which could total hundreds of thousands of pounds depending upon what data was stolen and how it affected your customers.

It's an important factor to bear in mind for developers who will often have invested many hundreds of thousands of pounds on their plans even before they are ultimately determined by a dozen people in a public chamber.

Despite earning hundreds of thousands of pounds through lucrative book deals, after - dinner speeches and directorships, Mr Hague — who also owns a # 1million apartment in Yorkshire — used his MP's living allowance to pay his mortgage interest and # 4,000 - a-year service charge, including use of a gym.

Duncan Hames, director of policy at Transparency International UK said: «It is almost inconceivable that campaigners would donate to each other hundreds of thousands of pounds without some assurance or agreement as to what the money would be spent on.

Back in February, an openDemocracy investigation found that donors had taken advantage of Northern Ireland's secretive electoral laws to funnel hundreds of thousands of pounds to the DUP's pro-Brexit campaign.

And Vote Leave thought it could make a difference — that's why it appears to have risked criminal sanction to pass those extra hundreds of thousands of pounds to AggregateIQ.

The letter has been sent as the commission and at least 16 police forces examine claims that the Conservatives failed to properly declare hundreds of thousands of pounds spent on accommodation and travel during the last election.

Researchers estimate that in the Columbia River alone, salmon contributed hundreds of thousands of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorus to the watershed each year.

But they do know hundreds of thousands of pounds of them are used in almond orchards each year.

Angela Burns AM, the Welsh Conservatives» shadow education minister, added: «In 2011, average per pupil funding in Wales was # 600 less than in England, equating to hundreds of thousands of pounds less for Welsh secondary schools.

Individual schools will lose or gain hundreds of thousands of pounds in the first year of the biggest shake - up of school funding in England for decades.

Its site was designed by architect Norman Foster at a reported cost of # 31 million, but media reports in 2010 found hundreds of thousands of pounds had been spent on fixing parts of a building that was «incredibly expensive to run».

«David Cameron and Michael Gove have wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds on free schools that haven't even opened.

Ofili's flag first flew above Tate Britain in 2010 when the gallery mounted a major show of the artist whose paintings now cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and who is still best known for his controversial use of elephant dung.

Summer 2015: Officials move to cut the subsidy paid to businesses, which has no cap, after realising an error in how the initiative was set up means companies could make hundreds of thousands of pounds off it.

Foremost amongst these celebs is Esther Rantzen, who if industry rumours are to be believed, pockets hundreds of thousands of pounds every year for lending her approval to one of the leading claims brands.

Thompsons Solicitors» road accident lawyers help motorcyclists who have been injured in road accidents to secure hundreds of thousands of pounds in personal injury compensation.

Alex has obtained hundreds of thousands of pounds for clients who have been injured through medical treatment or lost loved ones as a result of Clinical Negligence.