Example sentences of "been [adj] million [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 3 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 4 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 5 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 6 | The figure budgeted for the whole year had been 40,000 million roubles . |