Example sentences of "[n mass] [num] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , defending the cuts , the Minister claims that most of his department 's spending of £1 billion a year on museums , heritage , sports and the arts , directly aids tourism . |
| 2 | The ministry is spending about £1 million a year on lasers — and some of this money has gone on buying equipment from Spectra-Physics for Japanese companies to try out . |
| 3 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 4 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 5 | Today we spend some £12,000 million a year on benefits for long-term sick and disabled people . |
| 6 | Charges for back-up support by at the request of will be BEF 20,000 a day excluding expenses . |
| 7 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 8 | A report by the House of Commons Select Committee on the Environment has estimated that indoor air pollution and sick building syndrome cost the British economy at least £650 million a year in terms of the effects on thousands of people suffering chronic ailments caused by increased allergies , asthma and other conditions . |
| 9 | The regional council gives £30 million a year in subsidies to ScotRail and is providing £150 million in capital for service improvements . |
| 10 | In spite of the law , however , it is estimated that children aged 11–16 in Britain spend up to £90 million a year on cigarettes [ 16 ] . |
| 11 | In the end Japan avoided $500 million a year in duties without making a single concession of its own . |