Example sentences of "[num] million [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support for loss-making state enterprises had also been a drain on the budget , with over 50,000 million yuan spent on subsidies . |
| 2 | She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected . |
| 3 | In fact , stage dates have already been estimated for the Cretaceous , with the startling conclusion that of the 67 million years attributed to the twelve stages of the system , nearly 20 million are given to a single stage-the Cenomanian . |
| 4 | Of the 6.6 million tonnes shipped from West Germany and West Berlin in 1989 some 700,000 tonnes were poisonous . |
| 5 | By the Statute of 1861 the 22 million serfs owned by private landlords were set free from personal bondage . |
| 6 | At the end of trading the U K market remained below the two hundred level at one hundred and ninety nine point two up eight point nine points , volume was moderate with four O nine point six million shares traded . |
| 7 | Between 1950 and 1970 some six million people moved from the central provinces and the frontier region with Portugal to the four major areas of industrial development in Spain . |
| 8 | Thirteen million pounds raised by council house sales has been frozen by central government and today 's new build is all with private money for private buyers . |
| 9 | Traditionally it has been believed that both are needed , as in the Sun for example where fifteen million degrees and a central density more than 100 times that of water are only just enough , or high pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees aimed for in the hot fusion programmes . |
| 10 | Even though the injury statistics are thought to under-estimate the problem by between 20 and 40 per cent , the known pedestrian accident rate — at 400 accidents per 100 million miles walked — is greater than that for car drivers . |
| 11 | By 1961 there were 7 million homes owned by their occupiers ; by 1987 the total was 14.5 million , as against about 6 million rented from local authorities , and under 3 million privately rented . |
| 12 | The conference had been told on Dec. 5 that some 780 million people in the world 's developing countries had insufficient food for their daily needs , that 190 million children aged under five suffered from malnutrition [ see this page for UNICEF report ] , and that up to 2,000 million people were suffering less serious dietary shortages . |
| 13 | 500 teachers in Gloucestershire went on strike and sent a delegation to London to back an appeal against a 10 million pound cut in county budgets . |
| 14 | At the close of business , the one hundred index had managed to rally from it 's low but still ended down 30.3 points at 2064 and volly remained light with only 379 million shares traded . |
| 15 | The output of the Mwatex Mill was only 4.8 million sq.metres compared to the existing capacity for the mill of 45 million sq.metres . |
| 16 | The PowerPC 601 , which incorporates Motorola 's 88110 bus architecture into IBM 's design , has 2.8 million transistors crammed into a dimension of approximately four-tenths of an inch per side , and uses IBM 's 0.6 micron CMOS process . |
| 17 | 166 million days lost to illness cost £13bn |
| 18 | Moreover , it was also draining the working class : in 1917 there had been three million workers employed in Russian industry , by the winter of 1920–1 the number had declined to 1,480,000 . |
| 19 | Moving on to B Sky B well it 's making excellent progress by the end of July we had over two point three million homes connected and over half of those are subscribing to one or two movie channels . |
| 20 | It is estimated that the three million trees required for the new forest — mainly broadleaved tree species interspersed with conifers — will take 30-40 years to plant and cost £3 million . |
| 21 | On the basis of the government 's own estimates , all of these changes made 1.9 million pensioners aged 60–79 and 350,000 of those aged 80 and over worse off , the vast majority of them being women ( DHSS , 1985b ) . |
| 22 | On the positive side , production of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons has fallen 46 per cent since the peak year in 1988 ; bicycle production surpasses car production , with 95 million bikes built in 1990 , compared with 36 million cars ; and world petroleum production fell by 1 per cent in 1991 , continuing a downward trend since the record output of 62.7 million barrels in 1979 . |
| 23 | In the run-up to such a referendum , do the Government really intend to put through the letterboxes of Britain 17 million textbooks entitled ’ Fixed Exchange Rates and the Economic Consequences of EMU , by John Major ’ ? |
| 24 | The two thousand million pages printed annually by the European institutions cost nearly three and a half thousand million Belgian Francs [ about £47 million Sterling ] and entail the destruction of thirteen thousand trees . |
| 25 | BR are hoping the eighty million pounds spent on new Turbo trains will bring and end to the complaints . |
| 26 | Says a company spokesman : ‘ The Game Boy success story is staggering , with 25 million machines sold worldwide by the end of last year . |
| 27 | The only aid agreed up to now is 50 million ecu pledged by the EC . |
| 28 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 29 | Four out of five of the 11. 6 million children aged under 16 in Britain in 1986 were living with both their natural parents ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 30 | A telegram from the new Chair of the Central Bank , Viktor Gerashchenko , to local bank branches on July 28 had authorised them to finance the estimated debts of 1,190,000 million roubles accumulated between Russian state enterprises . |