Someone at The Sunday Times seems to be having difficulty with the concept of grammatical number in relation to money, whether represented in full words or abbreviated:
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| Link The Sunday Times (subscription access only), ‘Ministers back our call to end savings scandal’ |
That is a lot of pounds for a singular verb to carry on its own, and the failure to harmonize verb and subject noun recurs in the body of the report:
The report’s opening sentence offers further confirmation that this is an entrenched grammatical error rather than a one-off slip:
It’s an incomprehensible mangle and there is no excuse for it.
£122bn earns; £122bn is; millions of pounds is
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