Example sentences of "[noun] billion [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is also right to draw attention to the high additional spending programmes of some £35 billion advocated by the Labour party , which would put a crippling tax burden on so many families in Britain . |
| 2 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 3 | Mr MacAskill argued that Scotland was already losing out to the south of England in terms of investment with £65 million spent over three years north of the Border compared with £1.2 billion allocated by the Government to fund the Jubilee Underground line in London . |
| 4 | The move also meant that the £10 BILLION spent by the Bank of England yesterday in a bid to prop up the sliding currency was wasted . |
| 5 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 6 | An extra £2 billion flooded into the market as the top 100 share index rose by over 13 points . |
| 7 | However , if oil prices do harden in the latter part of this century the $2.5–3.5 billion lost following the 1982 price fall could be recouped with interest . |
| 8 | In weighing the cost of the venture it should be remembered that 2.5 million people were employed and $25 billion spent on the project to land a man on the moon in the 1960s . |
| 9 | Thus almost £1.7 billion of the £2.8 billion spent on the Imperial takeover was recouped and yet the remaining assets yielded over half the Imperial profit ! |
| 10 | Privatisation of a truncated British Coal could raise £1 billion to £11/2 billion depending on the final shape of new coal contracts with the generators . |
| 11 | In March America had its smallest monthly trade deficit for almost eight years : $4 billion compared with a monthly average of $8.5 billion in 1990 . |
| 12 | The Strategic Defence Initiative is rejigged for action against short-range rather than long-range missiles , at a saving of some $1.5 billion compared with the Bush plan . |
| 13 | Professional investors have put at least $5 billion to work on the short side of the market . |
| 14 | Some scientists believe that the danger to health has been exaggerated , and that the estimated £1.8 billion required over the next five years to bring nitrate levels down would be better spent on other health problems . |
| 15 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |