Example sentences of "[noun] million [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that the Government 's original pledge last year of £55 million had been increased to £75 million , with a further £40 million funding to spearhead the regeneration of east Manchester . |
| 2 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 3 | More than £15 million has been spent on a broad range of training measures . |
| 4 | So far £1 million has been paid out on the basis of need . |
| 5 | About £1 million has been raised for charity by the display and reproduction of the watercolours which the Prince of Wales has painted in recent years but the exhibition which opens to the public today is his first one-man show in Scotland . |
| 6 | I know that not all of it has gone into cricket , but as we know that the Prime Minister , the chairman of the foundation and at least two of the trustees are cricket fanatics , we can expect that perhaps £5 million has been granted to cricket . |
| 7 | Some £4.25 billion has been thrown away on trying to get the people out of the mess into which the Government have placed them and £5,795 million has been poured in to try to save the Government from embarrassment . |
| 8 | The Maxwell name has been reviled by 20,000 pensioners outraged that £400 million had been pillaged from their pension funds . |
| 9 | An estimate of around £3 million has been given . |
| 10 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 11 | Since 1983 selective financial assistance totalling £104 million has been offered to projects with a total forecast investment of nearly £320 million . |
| 12 | Of £50 million that the government then made available to encourage mining companies , only about £10 million had been taken up by the middle of last year ( see above ) . |
| 13 | The ‘ missing ’ £10 million has been estimated by the independent National Audit Office in a report published earlier this month . |
| 14 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 15 | Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years . |
| 16 | The so-called Skylon is derived from Hotol , the project shelved by the Government in 1988 , after £7 million had been spent in it . |
| 17 | It confirmed that £2.9 million had been spent in the Maynard renovations and that one million of the sum had gone astray . |
| 18 | Grants worth around £12 million have been awarded to voluntary and arts organisations this year by the Regional Council . |
| 19 | In private , as much as £4 million has been discussed as a realistic figure . |
| 20 | US Treasury Under-Secretary David Mulford , who chaired the meeting , said afterwards that a total of $14,300 million had been pledged in financial support for 1990 and 1991 . |
| 21 | Some £205 million has been made available to Edinburgh for repairs and improvement grants since 1979 . |
| 22 | A grant of £1.3 million has been handed to the club by the Football Trust and a new 6,000 tier will take the capacity to 40,500 by August , 1994 . |
| 23 | Court staffing levels would be increased by 400 in the next financial year and an extra £2 million had been allocated to the court service for this financial year . |
| 24 | It has been good for both business and charity : since its launch in late 1988 , more than 300,000 cardholders have been recruited , and an estimated £2 million has been donated to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , the British Heart Foundation and Mencap . |
| 25 | On reflection , does my right hon. Friend agree that precious police resources — the figure of £2 million has been mentioned — should not be used on vindictive , Soviet or Israeli-type show trials which are bound to be a travesty of British justice as practised by this country for a long time ? |
| 26 | Up to £2 million has been budgeted for the special needs grant but the amount spent will depend on the take-up . |
| 27 | In 1977 , after $217 million had been spent , President Carter slapped a ban on commercial reprocessing . |
| 28 | Will he confirm that over £130 million has been invested in the coal industry in Wales since 1985 , and that our record compares favourably with that of the Labour party which , during its last two terms in office , closed a total of 56 pits in the Principality ? |
| 29 | The Saudis confirmed on Feb. 17 that $3,500 million had been raised by borrowing from foreign banks , the first such resort to the international money market . |
| 30 | Mr Robin said exceptional losses of £68.4 million had been incurred from property writedowns , the loss on a Swiss bond deal and restructuring costs . |