Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] million [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than £1.7 million has been shared out among victims of a child care scandal . |
| 2 | More than £15 million has been spent on a broad range of training measures . |
| 3 | The Pakistan government is hampered by lack of resources in launching any large-scale projects , and in the last 13 years less than $120 million has been ploughed into crop substitution programmes by foreign aid organisations . |
| 4 | The Maxwell name has been reviled by 20,000 pensioners outraged that £400 million had been pillaged from their pension funds . |
| 5 | Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years . |
| 6 | It confirmed that £2.9 million had been spent in the Maynard renovations and that one million of the sum had gone astray . |
| 7 | The Saudis confirmed on Feb. 17 that $3,500 million had been raised by borrowing from foreign banks , the first such resort to the international money market . |
| 8 | We expect it to fall again in 1993 , although $200 million has been earmarked for growth projects . |
| 9 | At this factory an immense research and development programme is headed by electronics wizard Bob Podhrasky , and in recent years more than $3 million has been pumped into the never ending pursuit of treasure hunting 's Holy Grail … the ‘ perfect ’ machine . |
| 10 | In the past year , more than £6 million has been invested in new Edinburgh premises for HMSO . |
| 11 | The Army 's interim commander at the base , Lieutenant Colonel John Middleditch , yesterday revealed that £50 million has been earmarked by the Government for building and refurbishment work on the base . |
| 12 | More than £30 million has been committed in all . |
| 13 | Since its implementation , fines totalling more than £24 million have been imposed under the Act and clearly some airlines have adopted practices aimed at minimizing the number of penalties incurred . |
| 14 | Some £4.25 billion has been thrown away on trying to get the people out of the mess into which the Government have placed them and £5,795 million has been poured in to try to save the Government from embarrassment . |
| 15 | In private , as much as £4 million has been discussed as a realistic figure . |