Example sentences of "millions of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts are all on the record , but the British government seems happy to continue financing the Wrexham factory to produce millions of video-cassettes a year without an apparent legitimate market . |
| 2 | From puberty onwards , the testes of the human male ( and those of other mammals ) produce millions of sperm a day , each of which undergoes many cell divisions before being ejaculated . |
| 3 | THE Department of Health has warned hospitals to be more vigilant after evidence that millions of pounds a year are being lost because of foreigners leaving the country without paying bills for their NHS treatment . |
| 4 | The babyfood market is worth many tens of millions of pounds a year and so the manufacturers have a great vested interest in when babies begin solids and what they eat . |
| 5 | Inability to select the right people is considered to be one of the major weaknesses of British management , a weakness with a hidden cost of many millions of pounds a year . |
| 6 | Providing security for politicians increasingly under threat from terrorists costs millions of pounds a year . |
| 7 | British Nuclear Fuels earn millions of pounds a year by taking in highly-dangerous nuclear waste from round the world . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , government-funded research now runs into several millions of pounds a year , most of it for matters related to social policy . |
| 9 | Among the 12 recipients are : Johnson Matthey , whose autocatalysts , are world leaders in a global market worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year ; Pilkington , whose energy saving glass is projected to be worth more than £100 million a year by the late 1990s ; Agricultural Genetics Company and Horticultural Research International , which have developed biological alternatives to chemical pesticides ; Sericol , for the development of water-based screen printing inks ; Ricoh UK Products , for chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) elimination in selenium drum production ; and Kerry Ultrasonics , whose water-based cleaning system replaces the need for CFCs . |
| 10 | Non payment costs the taxpayer millions of pounds a year , so today roadside checkpoints were set up to stop drivers at random . |
| 11 | Bird damage costs farmers millions of pounds a year in lost production . |
| 12 | Despite the introduction of phosphorescent strips which show up under ultra-violet light , and a security shield on the new 10 pound stamp , counterfeits still cost the postal service millions of pounds a year . |
| 13 | BRITISH Telecom has begun an exercise to stamp out overcharging amid reports that telephone bills may have been inflated by tens of millions of pounds a year , a company spokesman said yesterday . |
| 14 | Our volunteers raise millions of pounds every year . |
| 15 | Crime is big business , the total cost runs into millions of pounds every year . |
| 16 | The centre says that taking the guess work out of fishing will save the industry tens of millions of pounds every year . |
| 17 | Developing countries are often very poor in comparison , with little foreign currency , and supplying indigenous wildlife to relatively rich Westerners is worth millions of pounds every year . |
| 18 | The force says the cost to the taxpayer of illegal gatherings like the one at Castlemorton Common last summer runs into millions of pounds every year . |
| 19 | Squirrel damage costs foresters millions of pounds every year . |
| 20 | The aim is to bring calm to the streets and reduce the death toll on the roads which costs millions of pounds every year . |
| 21 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 22 | Hungry , driving people are what roadside restaurants are all about , and no one knows that better than Forte , the undisputed leaders in the field , serving millions of customers a year at hundreds of roadside locations nationwide . |
| 23 | It then entered the domestic market to begin the explosive growth towards today 's production level of millions of tonnes a year . |
| 24 | GCHQ has equipment costing billions of pounds , capable of intercepting millions of calls a year . |
| 25 | The massive scale of Edhi 's social welfare trust requires a budget of millions of rupees a year . |
| 26 | The honour of the most SOTW awards goes , to no-one 's particular amazement since they make millions of records every fortnight and are beloved of rock hacks everywhere , to THE FALL . |
| 27 | … I do n't see what harm that 's doing to the [ river ] when there are thousands of millions of gallons a day coming down . ’ |
| 28 | Genetic reproduction and expansion has , of course , been for millions of years the basis of animal life and its evolutionary change . |
| 29 | It assaults buildings and … costs millions of dollars every year . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , ’ he said crossly , ’ I 'm as sorry for those people as the next guy but this country spends millions of dollars every year on overseas aid and expertise . |