Example sentences of "be [adv] [noun] million " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luton 's loss FOOTBALL : Luton 's annual reports and accounts for last season yesterday showed they made a trading loss of £254,000 , which would have been nearly £1.6 million if they had not sold players . |
| 2 | United Kingdom exports to Libya have been about £250 million annually . |
| 3 | More serious is the allegation that in these latter years Ghana was allowed to accumulate extravagant debts : an amount of £500 million is often quoted , though the true figure seems to have been about £120 million . |
| 4 | The cost of the work to date has been about £150 million . |
| 5 | It reckons that the figures are about £487 million short of the sum needed . |
| 6 | Capital expenditure on trunk road schemes in Wiltshire in the next three years will be approximately £50 million . |
| 7 | For 1993 we expect development expenditure to be approximately £150 million less and within this budget we are planning to devote significant funds to our UK offshore projects in Morecambe Bay . |
| 8 | Even if only half these elderly people find that the withdrawal of tax relief makes private medical insurance too expensive for them and , consequently , revert once more to relying solely on the NHS for treatment , the cost to the nation of providing this care would be approximately £136 million . |
| 9 | I reckon I 'm about £60 million and six years behind Alex Ferguson . ’ |
| 10 | In 1981 the BWB chairman , Sir Frank Price said : ‘ The Fraenkel figure for the backlog of maintenance at today 's prices must be about £100 million . |
| 11 | Total promotional spending in the first half of the year will be about £1 million . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that if he were to convert all loans under the social fund to grants , as has been promised by the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) , the cost would be about £130 million and would greatly prejudice the operation of the social fund as it now works ? |
| 13 | The capital cost of the SNS and its associated instruments will be about £20 million . |
| 14 | As I have announced , total spending will be about £65 million a year . |
| 15 | The net worth of ESII was said yesterday to be about £17 million of which £11 million of capital would be repaid . |
| 16 | The cost of achieveing this at the chlor-alkali plants in runcorn by installing new technology was estimated in 1986 to be about £200 million , ’ said Phil . |
| 17 | It shows that the cost is likely to be about £15 million a year , but the benefits will be improved patient care and a greater ability on the part of community nurses to use their professional skills to the full . |
| 18 | On Monday Clark 's board met to weigh up three rival offers , all believed to be about £150 million . |
| 19 | Those three elements now all come out of the same fund , with discretion in the hands of the FHSA to use the fund for any one of those three purposes , but with a clear steer that the amount for the current year should be roughly £20 million , which my hon. Friend mentioned . |
| 20 | However , no agreement was reached on the total amount of assistance , estimated by the USA to be around $14,000 million but by the EC as no more than $9,000 million . |
| 21 | We estimate that for 1992 the cost of this work will be around £1.2 million , or two per cent of our costs . |
| 22 | Charles H. Keating , the former head of the Lincoln thrift in California , personified the thrifts scandal ; the debts left by the collapse of the Lincoln — estimated to be around $2,000 million — were greater than those of any other thrift . |
| 23 | In 1993 , the group 's charitable donations will be around £2 million in the UK along . |
| 24 | The total resources available to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in 1992-93 will be around £483 million . |
| 25 | This year they estimate the whole legal aid bill will be around £100 million and I say : ‘ Well done ’ on spending that money so efficiently and economically in order to let people have justice . ’ |
| 26 | The support facilities on shore for a 200-machine 600 MW cluster of wind generators would be around £25 million while transmission costs were estimated at four times that for a conventional 600 MW power station ( all at mid-1979 prices ) . |
| 27 | The total cost would be around £300 million . |
| 28 | Britain 's share of this new spending is likely to be around £300 million . |
| 29 | It is estimated that the cost of such a system of local government would be around £1 million , against the £18 million projected savings associated with the creation of a single council for Edinburgh and the Lothians . |
| 30 | But no details are yet available of the cash to be made available , except that it ‘ may be over £1 million ’ . |