Example sentences of "[noun] million [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report last October , the firm estimated annual savings ranging from £55 million for a 35-council structure to £192 million for 15 councils . |
| 2 | In 1992/93 AEA made an operating profit of £23 million on a slightly reduced turnover of £415 million . |
| 3 | Speaking of Deano — everyone I talked felt that as we had paid £2.7 million for a centre forward would n't it be nice if hung around near the goal or in the box for that matter instead of running all over the show and when we finally get the ball in the box there 's nobody there . |
| 4 | BOGUS aristocrat Rosemary Aberdour was back at the Old Bailey yesterday in danger of having her sentence for stealing £2.7 million from a hospital charity increased . |
| 5 | About £15 million of a total Partnership expenditure of £123 million was spent on projects likely to benefit ethnic minorities . |
| 6 | British Rail later announced they would spend £15 million on a back-up electronic locking system . |
| 7 | After investing £15 million in a variety of different schemes over the previous six years , and just when developments were looking promising , the government 's funding ( channelled through the Energy Technology Support Unit , part of the Harwell-based UK Atomic Energy Authority ) was cut . |
| 8 | The DHSS has pumped £21 million into a new blood purification complex at Elstree which has its own research and development facilities . |
| 9 | WELSH Water yesterday paid £21 million for an engineering consultancy , Acer Group . |
| 10 | On Dec. 6 the European commission granted a loan of $1,138 million for a five-year term , and in June Western central banks issued a further $280,000,000 short-term loan . |
| 11 | In well under the two years they had allowed themselves , the appeal had a total of £54 million with a further £30 million promised by the government . |
| 12 | We will annually spend an unnecessary £10 million to £20 million on a misdirected reorganisation of the Nature Conservancy Council , which was ruthlessly promoted against all informed advice , largely to appease Scottish landowners already hell-bent on destroying other sorts of peatlands . |
| 13 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 14 | Is it mad to spend £1 million on a folly ? |
| 15 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 16 | The nuns have run up debts of more than £1 million with an ambitious plan for a care village in the grounds of the convent . |
| 17 | The nuns have run up debts of more than £1 million with an ambitious plan for a care village in the grounds of the convent . |
| 18 | The club 's financial performance has been shattered by the incurring of revenues expenditure approaching £1 million over a two-year period to make good various defects , including gas leaks , to the new Bedser Stand and Ken Barrington Centre . |
| 19 | INVESTING £1 MILLION IN A TV DOG 'S DINNER |
| 20 | is currently investing £1 million in a novel television advertising and sampling campaign for Complete . |
| 21 | Otherwise if , say , £1 million was deposited in a building society and the building society then deposited the £1 million in a bank , it would count as £2 million — a clear case of double counting . |
| 22 | The size of a eurobond issue usually lies between $50 and $100 million with a maturity of about six or seven years . |
| 23 | The USSR also agreed to lend Cuba $100 million at a yearly interest rate of 2.5 per cent . |
| 24 | BRITAIN 'S newest professional fighter , Adrian Dodson , can earn $100 million in an eight-year career . |
| 25 | • Excellent unaudited Pre-tax Profits to £142.3 million from a record £132.5 million , before exceptional life and pension profits . |
| 26 | By the end of the day the raid was complete ; Tiphook had paid £7.7 million for a 9.9 per cent slice of its main competitor . |
| 27 | In other words , national income rises by £5 million following an increase in investment of only £2 million . |
| 28 | Still the goals fail to materialise , and a deal worth £5 million for a man who hits the net better than once every two games has genuine currency . |
| 29 | This programme ( see Chapter 3 ) involved the spending of over £400 million by a variety of agencies on the regeneration of east Glasgow , through the creation of new business centres , industrial development schemes , environmental improvements and substantial housing renewal and rehabilitation ( Leclerc and Draffan , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | Lord Hollick , the managing director currently embroiled in a boardroom battle at Mirror Group Newspapers , where he is a director , saw the broking business grow from £18.9 million against a background of declining interest rates and increased supply of government , corporate and US municipal bonds . |