Example sentences of "than a million [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the six years in which Ian Martin was secretary general , Amnesty International 's worldwide tally of members and subscribers doubled from about 500,000 in 1986 to more than a million at the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 2 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 3 | And so will more than a million of today 's pupils . |
| 4 | Expect to hear lots more about Iris in the next year , 'cause she 's better than a million of those smug Nashville fat-cats . |
| 5 | Such a sequence of failures is the nightmare of nuclear opponents but a situation on which the nuclear industry sees the remote probability of more than a million to one . |